On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 06:04:14AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote:
> I successfully used "cat <file> | tr -d '\n'" on a file that "sed
> 's/\n//g' <file>" failed to properly recognize. I need sed to
> effectively recognize newlines or ask that someone provide a perl
> script that will.
I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but Perl's chomp() function
seems to do a good job of removing various line-ending encodings. This
one-liner translates from foriegn to native newlines:
$ perl -i.bak -ne 'chomp; print"$_\n"' somefile more*files
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