Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 12:21:02 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Subject: Re: On removing ^M Message-ID: <20050509102102.GA58668@fw.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <20050508213407.GA2150@gothmog.gr> References: <20050508192019.127ED1CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> <20050508213407.GA2150@gothmog.gr>
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On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:34:08AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> No "tool" is needed, as long as you have FreebSD's shell, sed & grep:
>
> $ find . | while read fname ;do
> if grep '^M' "${fname}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;then
> sed -i '' -e 's/^M//g' "${fname}"
> fi
> done
Wouldn't this also catch directories or special files with ^M in them?
I'd add a "-type f" to find to avoid errors while trying to write to
a directory:
$ find . -type f | while read fname ;do
if grep '^M' "${fname}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;then
sed -i '' -e 's/^M//g' "${fname}"
fi
done
Regards,
-cpghost.
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