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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: inserting CR/LF
Message-ID: <1060@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 17 May 91 19:09:24 GMT
References: <IMG.91May17130727@tw612.eng.cam.ac.uk>
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img@eng.cam.ac.uk (Ian Green) writes:
>I want to replace all occurences of LF in a file with the
>sequence CR-LF.
>
>I have tried and failed with tr and sed.  It must be easy! (I don't
>want to write code/use emacs or vi.)

Use this:

sed `echo 's,$,\r,'` < input > output

That should do it. The trouble you probably had was entering the
carriage return (\r) directly; it gets turned into a newline (\n)
by the Unix terminal handler.

Paul.