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Date:      Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:09:17 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Byron Brummer <byron@omix.com>
Cc:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Converting text files
Message-ID:  <19990315040916.G25217@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903150915.BAA11814@thrush.omix.com>; from Byron Brummer on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:15:11AM -0800
References:  <3.0.6.32.19990315024432.007cf9a0@mail.bfm.org> <199903150915.BAA11814@thrush.omix.com>

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On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:15:11AM -0800, a little birdie told me
that Byron Brummer remarked
> 
> 	One of the reasons for the inclusion of the perl command is that it
> 	automatically saves a backup file of the original, thus helping to
> 	prevent disaster.  Another reason is that it gets people a little
> 	more familiar with perl in general.  The command given in the
> 	handbook is:
> 
> 		perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file

Hm, maybe it's just me, but I always...

        cat infile | tr '\r' ' ' > outfile



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