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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
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Subject: Re: On removing ^M
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On 2005-05-09 12:21, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:
>On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:34:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> No "tool" is needed, as long as you have FreebSD's shell, sed & grep:
>>
>> 	$ find . | while read fname ;do
>> 	    if grep '^M' "${fname}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;then
>> 		sed -i '' -e 's/^M//g' "${fname}"
>> 	    fi
>> 	  done
>
> Wouldn't this also catch directories or special files with ^M in them?
> I'd add a "-type f" to find to avoid errors while trying to write to
> a directory:
>
> $ find . -type f | while read fname ;do
>     if grep '^M' "${fname}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;then
>         sed -i '' -e 's/^M//g' "${fname}"
>     fi
>   done

Yes.  You're right, of course :-)