RedHat (and most other Linux distros) has a utility to do just that. It's called "mac2unix" and is a part of the dos2unix rpm.
daniel sagði: > i did much the same thing in perl > (see attached) > i'm not a mac fan > so i called it "antimac" :) > > it should take a file that's been polluted with mac carraige-returns (\r > in perl) and replace it all with (\n)'s. > > _________________________________ > daniel a. g. quinn > starving programmer > > the more law and order are made prominent, > the more thieves and robbers there will be. > - lao-tsu > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:35 AM > Subject: Re: More on apples text files > > > | In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > on | 09/06/2002 at 09:48 AM, > | Blake Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > | > | >I'm running into problems with sharing text files between macs and my > | >linux machine. The problem seems to be that on linux my text files > have | >end of lines (\n) and on the mac text files have something else > (shown as | > '^M' when I look at it in Linux). Maybe there are other > problems too, | >but this seems to be one. Anyone run into this before > and found a | >solution? > | > | Unix uses linefeeds at the end of each line. Macs use a carriage > return | at the end of each line. DOS and its derivatives use a > carriage | return-linefeed pair. > | > | The ^M is the the <CR> from the Mac. You'll see that with DOS files > too. | > | To switch back and forth between DOS and Unix there are a set of > utilities | (dos2unix and unix2dos) that will fix these up for you. I > have around | here (somewhere) a script that I found on the net > somewhere called | mac2unix that converts the <CR>s to <LF>s. Don't > know about going the | other way, should be able to rewrite the script > to do that. > | > | > | > | -- > | ----------------------------------------------------------- > | Steve Garcia using MR/2 ICE #10133 with Warp 4 > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | For PGP key, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject "PGP key" | > ----------------------------------------------------------- > | The Operating System/2 Version is 4.50 > | Revision 14.062 > | There are 38 Processes with 138 Threads. > | GHARLANE: uptime is 0 days, 03:42 hours and 33 seconds > | > | * They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little > temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin > Franklin > | > | > | > | -- > | redhat-list mailing list > | unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > | https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > | -- This space is not intentionally left not blank. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
