tr problem

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 21:52:09 UTC 2008


On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:41:31 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:42 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:31:19 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > > Except as stated by the OP your solution of dos2unix might not work,
> > DOS
> > > uses as eol characters cr followed by lf. So you would not want in
> > that
> > > case to replace a cr by a lf. You would want to just remove the cr.
> > > In vi this is done by the command:
> > > :.,$s/^V^M//
> > 
> > $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/mac2unix 
> > dos2unix-3.1-31.fc9.i386
> > 
> > ;o) 
> How is this a response to what I said?

mac2unix  is just  dos2unix -c Mac  and can be used to replace CR line
delimiters with LF, which is what Gene, the OP, wants. On the contrary,
where the line delimiters are CR+LF (DOS, Windows), dos2unix can be used.




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