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Date:      Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:12:40 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To:        ken@mui.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btw - ^M
Message-ID:  <E0yHo6q-0004wk-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199803242158.LAA12307@rocksalt.mui.net> from "ken@mui.net" at "Mar 24, 98 11:57:17 am"

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ken@mui.net wrote:
>
> um ... btw - is there an easy way to strip away the carriage returns 
> (^M) from text files on the dos side?  Doing it manually is okay for 
> short stuff, but long files ...painful...

Many ways.  For instance:

  #!/usr/bin/perl -pi

  s/\r\n/\n/;
  s/\032$//;

-- V

Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878

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