Re: Removing Carriage returns from text files

[stefan k]

in reply to Removing Carriage returns from text files

Uhmm,
what's wrong with

perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r//' file(s)

? This is what I always use when d/l'ing code from the Monastery, because dos2unix (and friends) get confused when there is more than one type of EOL in the file(s). Or won't that handy perl-one-liner work in windows?

Update: typo

Regards...	Stefan
you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

[helgi]

Since none of the replies you have received so far actually solves the problem except under certain restricted circumstances, here is a little utility, macorpc2unix that we use here about a million times a day:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -i
while (<>) {s/\r\n*/\n/g; print;}

It will convert PC or Mac text files to Unix format. I see that you could rewrite it with a -p swithc and dispense with the while but I will leave that as an exercise.

Regards,
Helgi Briem

[demerphq]

we use here about a million times a day:

But I bet only on *nix boxes, cause it wont work under win32.

:-)

Yves
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