On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
> You've run across the typical cross-platform issues that arise between Unix
> and Windows. The problem is that Windows uses \r\n to terminate a line
> while Unix just uses \n. When perl on unix sees \r it doesn't know what to
> do because it only expects \n. Therefore, to correct the problem, you need
> to change all \r\n to just \n. A typical way to do this is to run dos2unix
> on the file. However, not all systems come with dos2unix. Therefore, you
> can run
>
> perl -e "while( <> ) { s/\r\n/\n/g; print; }" infile.txt > outfile.txt
A simpler way with Perl:
perl -pi -e 's/\cM//g' <file>
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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