On 17 Feb 2003 21:07:20 +1030
David Fitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I've never been able to figure out a portable way
> > to mangle control chars with sed.
>
> if it's cos you're trying to use a dos file then just
> run 'dos2unix' over the file (and vice versa use 'unix2dos').
Yeah, but I never really trusted those programs, since
(on Solaris at least) they always whinge about character
sets or locales or something.
And it seems my suspicion is not unwarranted:
[mlh@localhost mlh]$ od -xc stuff
0000000 0a0d
\r \n
0000002
[mlh@localhost mlh]$ cat stuff|dos2unix|od -xc
0000000 000a
\n \0
0000001
What the hell is that null doing there?
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