Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-30 Thread John Delacour
On 29/7/13 at 03:27, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote: Substituting in for John's one-liner, but NOT reducing blank lines: perl -pi.bak -e s~\015?\012|\015~\n~g Yes, sorry—I should have been in bed when I posted that! JD -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-30 Thread JohnL
On Monday, July 29, 2013 5:47:42 PM UTC-4, Doug McNutt wrote: ftp://macnauchtan.com/Software/LineEnds Reminds me, going in a slightly off point direction, that Craig Stuart Sapp wrote a unix-based utility called flip for normalizing ASCII CR-LF endings across MS-DOS and Mac OS-9. It

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-30 Thread Ronald J Kimball
for files of a particular line break type: On 29/7/13 at 21:06, rar...@banet.net (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote: One warning. If you want to change CR to LF (as in this suggestion), you have to watch out for the CR+LF Line ending since just changing CR to LF will make this LF+LF

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Patrick Woolsey
At 14:53 -0700 07/28/2013, Steve Hodgson wrote: Given a folder of text files is it possible to search which one are of a particular line break type - say Mac Classic (CR)? Not specifically; may I ask what your objective is? Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc.

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Steve Hodgson
I've discovered what appears to be problem with the scriptogr.am service not displaying text files formated with CR line endings. Although I have fixed the individual instances where I first noticed this I would like to be able to check a largish number of files for similar problems. For the

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread John Delacour
On 28/7/13 at 22:53, st...@shodgson.org.uk (Steve Hodgson) wrote: Given a folder of text files is it possible to search which one are of a particular line break type - say Mac Classic (CR)? If your directory is “~/temp/textfiles/”, run this script in Terminal to change carriage return to

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Steve Hodgson
Thanks for the advice John. I'll file it away for future reference and use. The text factory appoach works well too. Especially if I use Change Line Endings rather than Normalize Line Breaks :-) Cheers, Steve On Monday, 29 July 2013 18:38:17 UTC+1, John Delacour wrote: On 28/7/13 at 22:53,

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:38 +0100 on 07/29/2013, John Delacour wrote about Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type: On 28/7/13 at 22:53, st...@shodgson.org.uk (Steve Hodgson) wrote: Given a folder of text files is it possible to search which one are of a particular line break type - say Mac

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Doug McNutt
ftp://macnauchtan.com/Software/LineEnds Is a link to an older Applescript scheme, with a bit of C code, that allows for a quick study of existing files by dropping their icons onto a folder. It's a bit old (2006) and I can't test with anything newer than OS 10.4. It is not intended to handle

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread John Delacour
On 29/7/13 at 21:06, rar...@banet.net (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote: One warning. If you want to change CR to LF (as in this suggestion), you have to watch out for the CR+LF Line ending since just changing CR to LF will make this LF+LF. This will change _any_ line ending to \n : perl -pi.bak

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Rick Gordon
Wouldn't that change multiple returns to a single return, as well, though? -- On 7/30/13 at 12:28 AM +0100, John Delacour wrote in a message entitled Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type: On 29/7/13 at 21:06, rar...@banet.net (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote: One

Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-29 Thread Bruce Van Allen
in a message entitled Re: Searching for files of a particular line break type: On 29/7/13 at 21:06, rar...@banet.net (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote: One warning. If you want to change CR to LF (as in this suggestion), you have to watch out for the CR+LF Line ending since just changing CR to LF will make

Searching for files of a particular line break type

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Hodgson
Given a folder of text files is it possible to search which one are of a particular line break type - say Mac Classic (CR)? Thanks, Steve Hodgson -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email