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Date:      Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:50:33 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To:        joki@shire.domestic (Joachim Kuebart)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing DOS's ^M
Message-ID:  <199704041450.QAA11267@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <199704041308.PAA00627@shire.domestic> from Joachim Kuebart at "4. Apr. 97 15:07:45"

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> There used to be a utility to do that, something like a filter called crlf or so, but I can't find that.
> 
> For now, to convert Text files (that do NOT contain any other control characters apart from ^M and newline), you can use
> 
> 	cat -v filename | sed 's/^M//' > outfilename
> 
> alternatively to EMACS, which is Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.
> Maybe even sed offers a better way, but this is what comes to my mind :-)

Try
   tr -d '\r' <filename >outfilename
            ~~ = <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Z>

This will work also for files which contain other control chars.

Robert

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