On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:14:25AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> Kerstin Hoef-Emden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Are similar tools to flip and dos2unix available for converting
> > Mac-ASCII texts?
>
> perl works well.
>
> perl -i -pe 's/\r/\n/g' [filename...]
>
> the -i means to edit the files in place. See perl --help for more
> information on it.
mac files use '\015' for end-of-line, whereas pc files use
'\015\012'. (and in macperl, \n == \015, by the way, instead of
everyone else's \012.)
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Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
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 > reg.file
should do the trick. While we're on the subject, a Mac file
can be converted with
tr '\015' '\012' < mac.file > reg.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
CR+LF.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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