----- Original Message -----
From: "Zak B. Elep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] My favorite text editors: JOE and GEDIT
Rafael Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Why use vi when he could far more easily do the same with sed? Would
be a lot faster too, especially if the files are in any way large:
sed -e 's/\r$//' doslineending-file >unixlineending-file
Change dos.*file and unix.* file to $1 and $2, prepend a #!/bin/sh on
that, and save it as bin/dos2unix, and there you go.
To go the other way:
sed -e 's/$/\r/' unixlineending-file >doslineending-file
Same, this is bin/unix2dos.
although there are thousand ways to skin a cat... same true goes with the
problem above...
another simple solution is to use "tr" - translate characters...
in dos.. an end of line indicates two characters ... carriage return
character(13) plus a newline character(10) in that order... while in unix..
an end of line indicates a newline character (10) only... to convert it to
unix file.. all you need is to delete or remove the carriage return
character...
tr -d "\r" < dosfile.txt > unixfile.txt
fooler.
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