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From: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Text file conversion between UNIX and MSDOS
Message-ID: <678@friday.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 19:54:37 GMT
References: <89Feb9.123853est.2662@godzilla.eecg.toronto.edu> <368@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM> <273@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
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In article <273@vlsi.ll.mit.edu> malpass@ll-vlsi.arpa.UUCP (Don Malpass) writes:
>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
 . . .
># 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 useful addition is:
tr -d '\032\015' < "$1" >! /usr/tmp/dm.temp
to also delete those annoying <ctl-Z>'s that often are at the end of files.
I also suggest
tr -d '\032\015' < "$1" >! /usr/tmp/dm.temp$$
mv /usr/tmp/dm.temp$$ "$1"
to generate temp names unique to your PID, and keep two users from
clobbering each other's files.
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