tr problem
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 20:44:47 UTC 2008
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:35:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
> I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer, whose eol is
> a single cr into one with a newline subbed for each cr, and tr is being a pita,
> it broken, or there is PEBKAC.
>
> If I use this syntax:
>
> tr -c \r \n <filename >filename2
>
> Then the whole file is converted to nnnnnnnnnn's, every byte.
>
> The manpage (and pinfo tr too) is, shall we say, completely lacking in how to
> handle the file I/O.
>
> So how do you use tr?"
Why option -c?
tr '\r' '\n' <filename >filename2
would do it.
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