Or, perhaps even easier, you can just run the unix2dos or dos2unix commands...
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:29:46 -0800
"Brandon Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or, you could use tr:
> tr -d \r <inputfile >outputfile
>
> Or, you could use awk:
> awk '{sub(/\r$/,"");print}'
>
> The awk command assumes that each line ends in the DOS-style, though. =P
>
> On 2/26/06, Anna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:40:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I finally got MEPIS Linux to access my VFAT 32 partitions. I was able
> > to update some simple text files but ran into two problems:
> > >
> > > (1) End-of-lines were replaced by unprintable characters. I think 0d0ah
> > was being replaced by 0ah.
> > >
> > > (2) I would end up with two versions of the file; one FILENAME.EXT the
> > way I wanted it; the other as FILENAME.EXT~ without any changes
> > applied. (I only want the first one.)
> > >
> > > I was using Kedit.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on how to fix these?
> >
> > Hi Jennifer,
> >
> > Many distributions come with a utility named unix2dos (or maybe
> > unixtodos) that will convert the line endings in a file from unix type
> > to dos (windows) type. I don't have it on my system, so I can't tell
> > you how to use it... but that's what man pages are for. ;)
> >
> > Another way to "fix" a file is with vi. open a file with vi, set the
> > file format to 'dos' and then write and quit. do that like this...
> >
> > $ vim whateverfile.txt
> > # once vim starts type (without the quotes) ":set ff=dos"
> > # and press enter
> > # then type ":wq" and press enter
> >
> >
> > typing ":" tells vi you're going to enter a command. follow that with
> > the command and press enter. the "wq" command tells vi to write the
> > file and quit. when you write the file with the 'ff' parameter set to
> > "dos", the line endings written with be what you're looking for: 0d0ah
> >
> > There are other ways of course. Because vi is text based, you can
> > script the above if you want, which is cool. Or you can write a little
> > perl/python/whatever program. :) for instance, this one seems to work
> > for me:
> >
> > # on a command line...
> > $ perl -wpi -e 'chomp; s/$/\r\n/;' whateverfile.txt
> >
> > If you use that, make sure whateverfile.txt is definitely formatted with
> > unix style line termination, because if it's already dos then this will
> > add an additional useless/confusing '\r' character to the end of each
> > line, and your situation will be worse.
> >
> > have fun. :)
> >
> > - Anna
> >
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>
>
> --
> If UNIX doesn't have the solution you have the wrong problem.
> UNIX is simple, but it takes a genius to understand it's simplicity.
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