On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 01:47:41 -0500, Wes Harper wrote:

> 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

Thanks, but I'm obviously a newbie to Linux and I don't understand
any complicated syntax structures and I haven't learned yet how
scripts work and I don't want to mess around with any stream editors,
whatever they are.  I just use a normal text editor.  I have learned
from Steven that the "dos2unix" utility comes provided with the
BasicLinux distribution.  I haven't had an occasion to try it yet,
but I will soon.

Sam Heywood
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