Where is also a ^Z at the end of the file, that
you may want to get rid of.
/Klas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Molenda, Mark P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: 'Shane Kerr'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: need a prg like dos2unix
>
>
> Or you could....
>
> substitute "filename" for your file
>
> cat filename | tr -d '\15' > newfilename
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shane Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:39 AM
> To: linux
> Cc: Mailing List
> Subject: Re: need a prg like dos2unix
>
>
> 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
>
