Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:29:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> To: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960924102856.15006D-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu> In-Reply-To: <324754C2.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>
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> 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.
>
tr -d "\r" < old_file > new_file
use it all the time....damn dos users.... :-)
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