Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:20:39 +1200 (NZST)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > to delete every crlf to a space.
> > >
> > > tried
> > >
> > > sed 's/\015\012/" "/' dbcontents.txt >dbcontents2.txt and
> > > sed 's/\015\012/\024/' dbcontents.txt >dbcontents2.txt and
> > How about something like
> >
> > cat dbcontents.txt | tr -d "\015" | tr "\012" ' ' > dbcontents2.txt
>
> won't that delete every \012. I only want where \015 and \012 are
> consecutive
Yes, pedantically, it will delete every carriage return and change every
line-feed to a space.
For perfection in the matter you really need a perl script.
I'm not a perler.
> but i will play with tr thanks
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
