[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [RESOLVED]

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Aug 12 22:00:58 UTC 2019


On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jason Barbier wrote:

> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs
> that covers it with emacs
> and if sed or tr is your speed
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2613800/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-crlf-to-unix-newline-lf-in-a-bash-script

Thanks, Jason. I ran both files through dos2unix to no effect.

What did work was,
 	cat <filename> | tr "^M" "\n"

When I reverted the buffer in emacs the huge block of text was separated
into rows.

Regards,

Rich



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