On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:03:15PM -0500, will trillich wrote: ... > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #56 from Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Troubled by DOS-FORMAT OR MAC-FORMAT TEXT FILES? Here's another > way to deal with those troublesome ^M characters: a simple > tr -d '\015' < dos.file > should do the trick. While we're on the subject, a Mac file > can be converted with > tr '\015' '\012' < mac.file > You can do all your CR/LF translations with tr as long as you > can remember that macs use CRs, *nices use LFs, and DOS uses > CRLF.
I object to classifying this as a NEWBIE tip:) There are better and simpler ways to achieve this, the tip as is will only scare people, fails to deal with the eof char, and doesn't *replace* the original file (the thing newbies are likely to expect). Better advice to use one of the many special programs for this simply task. -- groetjes, carel
