Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:22:45 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: eliminate character with sed Message-ID: <20120520182245.b04d681f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAOZy0enEPQNFrJv-xZ-H5_18_r5rvjHQQCeFQT6x26TGTf0c0g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOZy0enEPQNFrJv-xZ-H5_18_r5rvjHQQCeFQT6x26TGTf0c0g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:08:04 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter
> character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying
> to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck.
>
> Here's the line that I'm trying to use:
>
> #sed -i '.bak' 's/^M//g' config.php
>
> However when I have a look at the backup file that's been created with
> this command, it looks like there was no effect:
>
> <?php ^M/* Global Variables */^M if(!defined('DS'))^M
> define('DS',DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);^M^M
> if(!defined("_MAINSITEPATH_"))^M
> define("_MAINSITEPATH_",dirname(__FILE__).DS);^M
>
> I was wondering is someone had a tip on how to run this command
> effectively in this situation.
It seems that you need proper quoting. The character
sequence "^M" != ASCII code of CR. Note that ^M is
just a _visual representation_ of Ctrl-M, which does
output the same ASCII code as the "CR key" would.
The corresponding escape sequence is \r. Together
with \n, the DOS-based "line end" \r\n is generated.
Remove the \r part, and you have the default (normal)
line end - as you correctly intended.
Note that different viewers or editors might have a
different representation than "^M"!
As you just want to delete the ^M (the CR), why not
use "tr" instead?
% tr -d '\r' < config.php > config.php.new
Put a bit of scripting around it, and it will do the
same. See "man tr" for details.
Regarding the use of "sed": I'm not sure if it's possible
to do something like
% sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php
because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to
put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself
and surprise me. :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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