Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:20:41 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: hawkeyd@visi.com Cc: wblock@wonkity.com (Warren Block), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tool/method to convert DOS line endings to UNIX line endings Message-ID: <200212041520.gB4FKgD20705@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20021204080104.A56240@sheol.localdomain> from "D J Hawkey Jr" at Dec 04, 2002 08:01:04 AM
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> > ... Much deleted ... > > Ack. Looks like you're right, and I agree with you. If "[2addr]l" can output > '\r', "[2addr]s/regex/repl/flags" ought to understand "\r". I have to wonder > how many times I may have been bitten by this mis-feature. ;-, > > This'll work though: > sed -e 's/[[:cntrl:]]$//g' > > > > I like the tr(1) conversion too, but I always seem to think in terms of > > > sed(1) and awk(1). > > And if that sed(1) solution is still "too loose", the tr(1) solution reduces > "[[:cntrl:]]" to just the CR character. > Just to be clear on this issue; you want to be left with the LF characters and get rid of the CR characters not the other way around. I am not a sed person, but your statement is backwards even if your sed works. ////jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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