If you have sed (stream editor) you can create a script for this. Save as dos2unix
#!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1 Save as unix2dos #!/bin/sh sed 's/$/^M/' $1 You can use ctrl-v ctrl-m combination in vi to create the ^M you can't just type it in. chmod +x dos2unix or whatever... syntax is: dos2unix < dosfile > unixfile unix2dos < unixfile > dosfile --- Wes On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:07:49AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > Can anyone here recommend a good utility program for removing > the CTRL + LF characters, i.e, the "^M" characters from the > ends of lines in DOS text files? > >...SNIP > > Does anyone here know of a simple way to deal with it? > > Sam Heywood
