dos to unix CR/LF conversion?

[James Knott]

There shouldn't be a ^r.  The dos chars are ^l & ^m, with Unix using 
only ^l.


Max Blanco wrote:
> Thanks to all who answered.
> I did as James suggested and found the app dos2unix at 
> <www.megaloman.com/~hany/software/hd2u/>.
> Unfortunately, at first glance, it seems to delete ^m but doesn't seem to 
> insert ^r?  That's what happened to my text file.  That's just a minor 
> tweak to the source code, though.
> 
> cheers,
> max.
> 
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, James Knott wrote:
> 
> 
>>Max Blanco wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I can't locate a tool using "man" to translate from dos ^m to unix ^m^r 
>>>(or whatever) on the command line.
>>>
>>>Anyone know if such a utility exists?  If so, how do I invoke it?
>>>
>>>I'm not interested in reinventing any wheels.
>>
>>There is a utility called dos2unix & the reverse.  If it's not installed 
>>in your distro, you can download it from somewhere.  Use google to 
>>search on dos2unix
>>
> 
> 
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