Re (tilly) 1: Removing Carriage returns from text files

[tilly]

This is from memory, without a machine to test it on.

perl -pi.bak -e "BEGIN{binmode(STDOUT)}" file1 file2

UPDATE
Erk, the above doesn't work. You could do it like this:

perl -pe "BEGIN {binmode(STDOUT)}" < in_file > out_file

or probably like this:

perl -pi.bak -e "binmode ARGVOUT" file1 file2

The idea being that you are reading in with the usual \r\n to \n conversion, and then you print out without that conversion. (Thereby dropping the "\r".)