Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:21:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files Message-ID: <20000808222146.A3443@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com>; from webmaster@wmptl.com on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:12:33PM -0400 References: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com>
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:12:33PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Is there any sort of utility to rip the ^M characters from the end of > each line in an ASCII text file as produced by Windows? I've tried using > a simple regexp with perl, as well as using chop/chomp, but niether seem > to work, any ideas? > > > I figure there has got to be some easy way of doing this? Right now > we're FTP get/binary, then FTP put/ASCII 'ing in order to convert; which > needless to say is a pain in the neck. > Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful. > Why not use tr(1)? Example: tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile That is probably the simplest soulution. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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