Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:41:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Caleb Land <bokonon@rochester.rr.com> To: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10008081538470.19857-100000@deepthought.granfalloon.com> In-Reply-To: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Is there any sort of utility to rip the ^M characters from the end of > each line in an ASCII text file as produced by Windows? I've tried using > a simple regexp with perl, as well as using chop/chomp, but niether seem > to work, any ideas? ... > I figure there has got to be some easy way of doing this? Right now > we're FTP get/binary, then FTP put/ASCII 'ing in order to convert; which > needless to say is a pain in the neck. > Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful. > > -- > Nathan Vidican > webmaster@wmptl.com > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > http://www.wmptl.com/ > The unix2dos port (in /usr/ports/converters) also includes dos2unix which will do the job for you (it's easy to convert a bunch of files with this program) -Caleb (bokonon@rochester.rr.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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