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From: breck@aimt.UU.NET (Robert Breckinridge Beatie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Summary: Doesn't he want: "tr -d '\015'"?
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <3222@aimt.UU.NET>
Date: 2 Feb 90 02:20:52 GMT
References: <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1990Feb1.164704.23581@athena.mit.edu> <1990Feb1.193031.11699@iwarp.intel.com>
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In article <1990Feb1.193031.11699@iwarp.intel.com>, merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
> 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'

Well, I've been wrong before, so I might be wrong now.  But, isn't '\012'
the same as '\n' or the new-line character?
Didn't the original poster want to know how to strip '^M' or carriage-return
characters from his uploaded files?  Shouldn't he be coing a:
	tr -d '\015' < filename > filename.new
?
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