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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