[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 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
> 
> Jason,
> 
> I looked at that thread and clicking on emacs' : in the status bar confirmed
> it is seen as in UNIX mode, but I still see the ^M in the file.
> 
> For anyone who wants to play with this, I uploaded the smallest of the four
> files (~13M) to fileconvoy.com where it will be available for 5 days. The
> URL is <https://tinyurl.com/y54p8xgv>.

# file hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv
hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv: ASCII text, with very long lines, with CR, LF line terminators

# tr -d "\r" < hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv > hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean
# file hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean
hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean: ASCII text, with very long lines

Please follow given examples exactly, tr "\r" "\n" was not given by
anyone that I saw in the thread, no sure how are where you came up
with that.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org