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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: Help!
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Date: 1 Feb 90 21:23:33 GMT
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In article <1990Feb1.193031.11699@iwarp.intel.com>,
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal
Schwartz) writes:
> 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'

  Oh, really?

  In csh:

% cat testfile
line 1
line 2
% tr -d "\012" < testfile
line 1line 2% tr -d '\012' < testfile
line 1line 2%

  In sh:

$ tr -d "\012" < testfile
line 1line 2$ tr -d '\012' < testfile
line 1line 2$

  More relevantly (once again, in csh):

% echo \012
012
% echo "\012"
\012
% echo '\012'
\012
%

  So, what were you saying, Randal? :-)

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