> Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created in > windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that are indented > across the screen. However when I create a file in linux and then highlight > and paste into another file it works fine. I think the files that are > giving me trouble are windows created because I see: > > "BlessedEquipment.html" [dos] 127L, 4640C written > > when I :w in vim. If the problem is they were created within windows then > what is it I need to strip out of the files? Use perl to do it? > Bill
Hey Bill. Perl is exactly the tool to do this. I admin an environment catering to Macs and this is the same thing. What you want to do is get the hex code for the DOS CR/LF. (I think it's \x0D\x0A) and changed it to \n. The script for this is: $> perl -pi.old -e 's/\x0D\x0A/\n/g;' readme.txt This will substitute newlines for CR/LF in readme.txt and create readme.txt.old as a backup. HTH. Cheers, -- Lance Levsen, Programmer Product Innovation PWGroup - S'toon. 477-3166
