dos to unix CR/LF conversion?

[Kevin Cozens]

At 03:51 PM 11/08/2003 -0500, max wrote:
>you were right.  My mac/ie5 converted linefeeds to ^m, instead of \r.
>I can't see straight anymore between '\n', '\r', "^M", "^L", C, perl, tr,
>unix, dos, mac, dog, cat.  Arrgh.

The simples way to make the changes you need is via the tr command. Your 
starting file has carriage returns (aka, ^M, 0x0D, or \015) instead of line 
feeds (aka, ^J, 0x0A, or \012). To make the changes you need, use the tr 
command as follows:

tr '\015' '\012' < file-in > file-out



Cheers!

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