Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 08:33:23 -0500 From: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> To: nik@iii.co.uk, ken@mui.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btw - ^M Message-ID: <v04003a07b13eb7c5c9e4@[208.140.182.45]> In-Reply-To: <19980325112205.51229@iii.co.uk> References: <199803242158.LAA12307@rocksalt.mui.net>; from ken@mui.net on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 11:57:17AM %2B0000 <199803242158.LAA12307@rocksalt.mui.net>
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At 06:22 -0500 98.03.25, nik@iii.co.uk wrote:
>In a nutshell, if you've got file.dos, and you want to convert it to
>file.unix, do
>
> % tr "\r" "\n" < file.dos > file.unix
>
>which runs tr, translating the "\r" characters (the ^M) to Unix line ending
>characters ("\n").
This will work for Macintosh files, but Microsoft, for reasons that escape me,
seems to require both a \r and a \n. Converting \r to \n will give you a
double
spaced file (e.g. like what I just typed).
+C
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