At 1:21 AM -0700 6/24/2003, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote: > >As part of that I want to include a short script (or something on the >commandline) to convert LF/CR to the appropriate type for Mac/Dos/Unix for all >the necessary files. I know how to do this, But I'm wondering if there's some >way I can reduce the script to essentially one line. Afterall, what good is a >converter to make sure the scripts run right if you can't run it? > >As I recall there's a switch or some such that you can do on the commandline >either when you run the main script or as the conversion script, but I don't >recall how to do this. Any ideas?
Perhaps I misunderstand your question, but at the commandline, something like... perl -pi -e "s/(\015\012|\012|\015)/\n/g" ...(followed by a list paths to files) will translate to local newlines. Something close to it should also work from MacPerl's "One Liner" menu item, although I think a droplet would be easier to handle. If you're looking for a way to pass switches into a script, you can prompt with MacPerl::Ask. There are examples in the MacPerl FAQ. http://www.macperl.com/depts/MacPerlFAQ.html And I like using Getopt::Long in conjunction with this (and Getopt::Auto looks pretty slick as well). -Charles http://euonymic.com/ -- Charles Albrecht Euonymic Solutions Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.O. Box 300623 C>303.619.7596 F>978.334.3061 Denver, Colorado 80203-0623 http://euonymic.net/~charlesa/cv/
