Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:09:17 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Byron Brummer <byron@omix.com> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Converting text files Message-ID: <19990315040916.G25217@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199903150915.BAA11814@thrush.omix.com>; from Byron Brummer on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:15:11AM -0800 References: <3.0.6.32.19990315024432.007cf9a0@mail.bfm.org> <199903150915.BAA11814@thrush.omix.com>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:15:11AM -0800, a little birdie told me
that Byron Brummer remarked
>
> One of the reasons for the inclusion of the perl command is that it
> automatically saves a backup file of the original, thus helping to
> prevent disaster. Another reason is that it gets people a little
> more familiar with perl in general. The command given in the
> handbook is:
>
> perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file
Hm, maybe it's just me, but I always...
cat infile | tr '\r' ' ' > outfile
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