Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 22:02:24 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> Cc: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: eliminate character with sed Message-ID: <20120520220224.08f23b38.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <op.wemfkde9g7njmm@michael-think> References: <CAOZy0enEPQNFrJv-xZ-H5_18_r5rvjHQQCeFQT6x26TGTf0c0g@mail.gmail.com> <op.wemfkde9g7njmm@michael-think>
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On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:10:51 +0200, Michael Ross wrote: > Maybe you can use /usr/ports/converters/dosunix. > > Usage: > dosunix INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE > > DosUnix converts files from DOS text format to Unix text format > by replacing each carriage return & newline pair with a single > newline character. > > does not do backups, though. If more complex conversions (including character sets) is needed (which often is the case for non-US "Windows" files), the "recode" port is very useful: % recode cp437..iso8859-1 <file> It also doesn't do backups, which would be required to do using a surrounding script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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