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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 19:10:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: any sh or bash gurus out there?
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970225185923.14997C-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <3313999A.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>

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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Randy DuCharme wrote:
> I'm stuck again.  I have a couple hundred 'DOS' text files that I need
> to make use of.  I need to get rid of that annoying '^M' at the end
> of each line.  I can kill it like this...

for filename in `find . -name "*.txt"`
do
	tr -d '\015' < filename > filename.new ; mv filename.new filename
done

Plug in an appropriate expression for selecting the files and run from
the root of the tree.

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  714 443 4172
 DPC Systems / Beach.Net                                    dan@dpcsys.com
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