Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown
From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A little help with SED and embedded ^M please.
Message-ID: <2623@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 02:30:22 GMT
References: <5483@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <62@dcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <62@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
<In article <5483@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
< > 
< >Also, I have recently had text files that have an emmbeded ^M char
< >at the end of every line.  I know this has something to do with
< >CR/LF conversion.  But how do I get rid of it? Thanks.
< >
<
<tr -d '\015' < infile > outfile
<
<This works on System V -- I don't know if the BSD version of tr(1) understands
<the -d option (== delete specified chars), or if it understands octal escapes.

We have a little utility written in C, for 4.3BSD, that will remove (delcr)
or add (addcr) carriage returns from/to a file.
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