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From: seth@tuba.columbia.edu (Seth Robertson)
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Subject: Re: A little help with SED and embedded ^M please.
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Date: 22 Apr 88 00:59:42 GMT
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In article <2623@nicmad.UUCP> brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video) writes:
>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.


If it not an automated processs, and you want to do it by hand, I usually
just find it easier to do it in emacs.. load the file and then
do Meta-% ^q^m<ret> <ret>
						-seth


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