scripts

[Paul Howarth]

Ian Malone wrote:
> On 3/3/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>John Summerfied wrote:
>>
>>>Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
> 
> 
>>>>They were probably created under windows and transferred over
>>>>with carriage-return, line-feed endings intact.  If you
>>>>load them into vim, type :set fileformat=unix and save
>>>>again it should fix them.  Or use the dos2unix program.
>>>>
> 
> 
>>>Any more ways to change this light bulb?
>>
>>How about:
>>
>>sed -i -e 's/\r//' script
>>
> 
> 
> g?

For a straight dos2unix job, there should only be a single 
carriage-return character on each line, so the "g" flag shouldn't be 
necessary. However, it would probably be safer to use it in case there 
were other carriage returns in the file.

Better still, anchor the replacement to the end of the line so as to 
leave other carriage return characters (which might be needed by the 
script) intact:

sed -i -e 's/\r$//' script

Paul.