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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.193031.11699@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 1 Feb 90 19:30:31 GMT
References: <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1990Feb1.164704.23581@athena.mit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)

In article <1990Feb1.164704.23581@athena.mit.edu>, jik@athena (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
|   tr -d "\012" < filename > filename.new

Bzzzt.  Can't combine that sorta quoting.  tr will get '012' as an
argument, not '\012', so what you wanted was either:
	"\\012"
or
	'\012'

Durn shell quotes. :-)

Just another oft-quoted source,
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