Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:13:35 -0700 From: Tony Rini - System Administrator <tony@thegrid.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files Message-ID: <399069EF.D883F30C@thegrid.net> References: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com> <20000808222146.A3443@student.uu.se>
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This may not be the best option but its another one.
vi the file and bust a search and replace
/%s/^M//g
Remember to use control+v them control+m to get the ^M
Erik Trulsson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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