Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 03:41:24 -0500 From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@mexcom.net> Cc: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines? Message-ID: <34092E34.2528FC84@opentech.stpn.soft.net> References: <199708300228.TAA05602@myrtle.bogs.org> <34082117.10820BBF@mexcom.net>
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Edwin Culp wrote: > Greg Shenaut wrote: > > > > In message <34076F58.B5DBAC3F@chalmers.com.au>, Robert Chalmers cleopede: > > >Hi, > > >Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text > > >lines in fbsd? > > > > Try this C program (fixnl). Maybe it'll work. > > (I use it on BSD/OS and MS-DOS, but haven't tried it > > on fbsd.) It is gzipped and uuencoded. > > > I would suggest something a little simpler. > sed 's/^M$//' filename>filename.tmp > mv filename.tmp filename > The ^M is done with the vi editor first typing > control v followed by a control m. > > This can obviously be put in a simple shell program > to solve the problem forever:-) > > ed I think this is most sensible in using whatever is already there..... No separate 'C' or Perl program to this as simple as that.... Prashant.
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