Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:26:30 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960924162534.7851E-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <324754C2.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>
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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Randall D. DuCharme wrote:
> Greetings,
> I've read numerous things about adding the CR-LF back into text files
> for use with DOS, but what about the other way?? Is there a way to
> remove
> that annoying ^M from a DOS text file under FBSD? I've tried many
> things
> but nothing short of removing them one-by-one seems to work.
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy
>
How about this little perl script
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -ni
if (/\r$/) {
chop; chop;
print $_,"\n";
}
else
{
print $_;
print (STDERR "$ARGV[0]: Line does not need translation\n");
}
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Cheers,
Carey
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