Re: need a prg like dos2unix

[Shane Kerr]

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, linux wrote:

> Someone mentioned one last week, but I dont remember the name of the
> program.
> 
> Basically need a prg that strips the ^M and other MS crap from txt files

You don't need a special program for this.  Try:

perl -pe 's/\r$//' < input > output

Perl is fun! Whee!!!  (This is actually probably better handled in "sed",
but I don't know sed, and since I have Perl, why would I bother learning
it?)

Shane