Patrick Monnerat wrote:
I'm trying to convert a \r\n line-ending file to unix style, but
this file has some lines with their last character being \r (i.e.: the
sequence of binary bytes is ...\r\r\n...)
Using dos2unix to convert it strips both \r, resulting in a byte
sequence ...\n...
This seems to me a bug. I need the trailing \r in the file as a normal
character, not being part of the line ending.
This behavior is by design. What you ask doesn't make much sense for
most text processing:
before:
abcd\r\r\n <<--- look, a DOS line ending '\r\n'.
after running it through YOUR desired dos2unix:
abcd\r\n <<--- look, it STILL has a DOS line ending!
If dos2unix worked that way, FAR more people would be annoyed: "I ran my
file 'foo' thru dos2unix, but it still has dos line endings!"
If someone were to submit a patch to add an optional, "non-greedy" mode
to dos2unix it would be thoughtfully considered...
--
Chuck
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