tr problem

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 21:28:23 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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...

Oops, I should have read past the word 'legacy' which must not have 
meant what I thought.
tr '\r' '\n'
should work.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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