Nick Rout wrote:
cat dbcontents.txt |tr -d "\015\012" >dbcontents2.txt also seems to get rid of every combination as well as the solo \012's, which is NOT what I want.
python to the rescue...
will read from stdin, and write to stdout. Don't use on supermassive files.
#!/usr/bin/env python import sys,string string.join(sys.stdin.read().split("\r\n"))
Ooops. last line should have a print:
print string.join(sys.stdin.read().split("\r\n"))Cheers, Carl.
