On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:08:34PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:10:15AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > > > > What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, > > > > there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. > > > > > > It is ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt > > > I believe that that file does not have ^Ms. > > > Basically, what I am doing (once in a while), to get > > > a recent rfc-index file, and merging each rfc description > > > (1-3 lines) into one line. The script is actually simple > > > and stupid. > > The original file is a dos format text file. Dos text files have CR-LF > at the end of every line, whereas unix files only have LF. The extra CR > is the ^M you're seeing. Obviously awk (mawk?) is not handling the text > format properly, instead assuming it is a unix format file. Your belief > that the original file does not have ^Ms is incorrect. It does have > them, but they just don't show up on most editors. If you edit it with > nvi, you'll see them there. > > I'd suggest one of two things: > 1. If your awk is mawk, try installing gawk (GNU awk) and see if that > handles dos text files better. > 2. Convert the files by removing the ^Ms before running awk on them. > > This is basically a compatibility problem, not a bug in awk. > > Matthew > I asked a different question for which the answer is appropriate here.
The sysutils package contains, among other things, two programs, fromdos and todos. Fromdos removes ^M from files and todos inserts ^M before each line feed, effectively converting a UNIX test file into a DOS text file. fromdos will remove your carriage returns (^M). -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
