No, it doesn't look like it works correctly with newlines: sun%> od -c nums.txt # basic datafile 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 0000010 sun%> tr '\n' '\0' < nums.txt | od -c - # fails 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 0000010 sun%> tr '\n' '5' < nums.txt | od -c - # fails 0000000 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 0000010 sun%> tr '1' '5' < nums.txt | od -c - # works 0000000 5 \n 2 \n 3 \n 4 \n 0000010 sun%>
I'll have to see if I can do an upgrade on it. Thanks for the prompt reply. ray On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Thanks for your report. It looks like the tr command on your system > cannot handle newlines. Can you please check whether the following > command > > tr '\n' '\0' > > transforms newlines into ASCII zero characters? > > Regards, > Sergey
