[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Aug 12 23:38:08 UTC 2019
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Are you sure it is not ^J^M, your probably only seeing the ^M in emacs,
> this is known as CR LF line termination.
Rodney,
Yep.
> Many ways to fix it..
> dos2unix is a common utility...
Did this; emacs still shows ^M but the status line indicates UNIX \n.
> tr -d '\15' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txt
This makes one huge line.
> perl, awk, ftp localhost in ascii mode *may* fix it.
Perhaps perl; not awk as the crlf is not a field.
Rich
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