tr problem
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 21:09:46 UTC 2008
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> 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?"
>
> Or is there a better tool for this than tr?
>
The tr syntax would be
tr -d '\r'
but for one or a few files you can just load in vi (vim) and
:set fileformat=unix
and write it back out.
Plus, you probably have a program called dos2unix installed...
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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