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From: malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Summary: unix strip_cr script
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Date: 21 Feb 89 15:58:07 GMT
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Reply-To: malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass)
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>> Can somebody send me a program to do this?

Like everyone else, I've been annoyed (and our unix laser printer gets
annoyed) by the DOS <CR> which tags along with the <LF> in
dos-originated files.  Unix's "tr" (translate character) program
provides the easiest solution when in unix.  I put a script called
"strip_cr" in my bin directory because I've needed to use it so often.
It discards any <CR> in the called file, parks the stripped copy in
/tmp, and renames it back to the original file.  If you need wildcard
expansion or multiple files, write a "foreach" script.


# strip_cr: discards <CR> leaving only <LF>.
echo 'NOT a pipe.  Renames output back to input.'
tr -d '\015' < "$1" >! /usr/tmp/dm.temp
mv /usr/tmp/dm.temp "$1"

-- 
Don Malpass   [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa],  [malpass@gandalf.ll.mit.edu] 
  A flush beats a full house.
    Plumber's Motto