[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

[Jason Barbier]

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

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Jason Barbier | E: jason at corrupted.io 
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have large (~111M) .csv data files exported from a Microsoft Access
> database. Each file is one large block of text using ^M (carriage return)
> embedded as the line separator.
> 
> 'sed' is probably the best tool to translate that control character to a
> newline (\n) but I don't know how to write '^M' so sed recognizes it as a
> single character. In emacs it displays colored cyan rather than white.
> 
> A web search told me that ^M is equivalent to the linux \r, but not how to
> specify it for sed or emacs.
> 
> Pointers needed.
> 
> Rich
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