Sed

J_Szucs · 05-12-2003, 05:11 AM

I would like to convert a regular WinDOS text file to unix text.

First I thought I could do it with sed, but it does not seem so:

sed s/.$//g # removes CRs, but also damages the file: it cuts off the last character of the last line, which never happens to be a CR
sed s/^M//g # does nothing, CRs remain in the file

Could you help me with a working sed example for this task?

whansard · 05-12-2003, 05:36 AM

recent thread

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...138#post278138

another

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...551#post279551

Hko · 05-12-2003, 10:52 AM

Some Distro's (at least Debian) include the dos2unix and unix2dos utilities especially for this.

J_Szucs · 05-12-2003, 06:03 PM

Thanks for the tips.
tr -d '\015' worked!

Maybe sed would have worked, too, if I knew how to quote CR.
Now I know this might have worked: sed s/'\r'//g.
But I will not try it since I already have the solution using tr.
As for dos2unix: it was originally not on my system (an other kind of unix, not Linux); last year I downloaded it as a perl script, but it never seemed to work as expected.