Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:29:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Subject: Re: On removing ^M Message-ID: <20050509102946.GA2740@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20050509102102.GA58668@fw.farid-hajji.net> References: <20050508192019.127ED1CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> <20050508213407.GA2150@gothmog.gr> <20050509102102.GA58668@fw.farid-hajji.net>
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On 2005-05-09 12:21, cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> wrote:
>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
Yes. You're right, of course :-)
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