Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:09:50 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines Message-ID: <01110500095003.03811@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c165b5$9b7beac0$3000a8c0@sickness> References: <000b01c165b5$9b7beac0$3000a8c0@sickness>
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On Sunday 04 November 2001 23:52, you wrote:
> Thx for your help, and I'm just using the regular vi that comes with
> FreeBSD 4.4
Did I imagine it or did you say that you had experienced differnet behavior
in some other environment?
Or, to put it another way, what's the *problem* with ^Ms that you are trying
to solve?
The mere presence of Carriage-returns in a file would not normally be thought
of as a problem.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian T. Schellenberger [mailto:bts@babbleon.org]
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 10:17 PM
> To: David Loszewski; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines
>
> On Saturday 03 November 2001 23:29, David Loszewski wrote:
> > So then how do I strip it of the '^M's then? Lol, this is the biggest
> > pain in the ass, and I'm not a complete newbie.
>
> I'm still trying to get what's different or surprising about
> this--nothing
> should be any different w/r/t FreeBSD & ^M vs. any other Unix-like O/S.
> If something *is* different, you must be using a different editor or
> capture
> process or *something* than what you used before.
>
> > If I do 'wget' I get the
> > same thing sometimes so I'm starting to think that there's something
> > wrong with the configs in the system. Ideas on where I should start
> > looking?
>
> I've attached the scripts that I actually use to do this. Just put both
> of
> them in a directory that's in your path & you're all set. I've tossed
> "all"
> in for good measure; you can use
>
> unmsdos *.*
>
> to make all of the files "Unixy" or
>
> all '*.*' 'uncrnl $i'
>
> to just un-cr-nl them.
>
> I'm sure that there are standard utilities to do this, but this is
> literaly
> what I do.
>
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryan Thompson [mailto:ryan@sasknow.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 12:54 PM
> > To: Brian T.Schellenberger
> > Cc: David Loszewski; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines
> >
> > Brian T.Schellenberger wrote to David Loszewski:
> > > On Friday 02 November 2001 19:59, you wrote:
> > > > Maybe the question I should be asking instead is, is it normal to
> >
> > see a
> >
> > > > crap load of '^M's in a file in FreeBSD?
> > >
> > > Never happens to me (except with MS-DOS files, and of course that
> >
> > happens in
> >
> > > Linux as well). So something is configured in a screwy way on our
> >
> > system if
> >
> > > it's any different from Linux.
> > >
> > > But here's the deal on FTP, as I understand it:
> > >
> > > in text mode, FTP uses the MS-DOS conventions (it adds ^Ms), so if
>
> you
>
> > > run FTP on Linux in text (ascii) mode but the FTP on FreeBSD in
>
> binary
>
> > > mode, then Linux will add the ^Ms and FreeBSD won't strip 'em.
> >
> > Not the case.. Unless maybe your FTP is broken?
> >
> > > If you are running *nix-to-*nix, then FTP in binary mode on both
>
> ends;
>
> > > if it's a text file you can use text mode on both ends. Sounds like
> > > somehow the FTPs aren't communicating and they are in different
>
> modes.
>
> > > Of course that's not supposed to be possible, and I've never seen
>
> it,
>
> > > but it sounds like what might be happenening to you anyway.
> >
> > Actually, what ASCII mode is supposed to do, is, when transferring
>
> text
>
> > files, convert to the platform specific text format. (Which really
>
> means
>
> > the receiver strips or adds the ^M). This instruction is actually in
>
> our
>
> > training manual for new employees developing code on Windows machines
> > who
> > need to transfer via FTP. USE ASCII MODE FOR ASCII FILES. :-)
> >
> > - Ryan
> >
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of undergra
> > > > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 7:28 PM
> > > > To: Andreas Ntaflos; David Loszewski
> > > > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > > > Subject: RE: ^M on end of lines
> > > >
> > > > tr -d "\015" < input-file > output-file
> > > > ----- Mensaje original -----
> > > > De: "Andreas Ntaflos" <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
> > > > Para: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>
> > > > CC: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > > > Enviado: sábado, 03 de noviembre de 2001 0:44
> > > > Asunto: Re: ^M on end of lines
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:43:18PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> > > > > > Yea, but then I have to do that to all the files
> > > > > > Not pretty when you have a 100 files
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Dave
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> a simple fix after dl is to open it up in vi and do
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> :%s,^V^M,,g
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> -r
> > > > >
> > > > > The following perl command issued on the CLI will get
> > > > > rid of these annoying ^Ms.
> > > > >
> > > > > # perl -e -i -p 's/\r\n/\n/s' filename
> > > > >
> > > > > you can use wildcards too.
> > > > >
> > > > > There are also ports to solve these problems, like dos2unix.
> > > > >
> > > > > regards
> > > > > --
> > > > > Andreas "ant" Ntaflos
> > > > > ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net
> > > > > Vienna, AUSTRIA
> > > > >
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