On 3/22/00 18:30, Steve Youngs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>* Theo <T.> writes:
>
>> Why not do something like:
>
>> for file in `ls thedirectorythefilesarein`
>> do `sed -e s/\^M/\^J/ < $file > tmpfile` ;
>> mv $tmpfile $file
>> done
>
>No reason at all except I don't know a great deal about sed. :)
To be perfectly candid, neither do I. :-) (And awk is taking some
getting used to also!)
When I looked at your script again and understood that you were using tr,
it seemed to me to be the better choice.
>
>Thanks for the idea
>
Right back atcha.
Cheers,
Sean
T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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