[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 8/12/19 4:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Michael Ewan wrote:
> > 
> >> tr is your friend
> >> tr '\013' '\n' < old_file > new_file
> >> this will probably work also
> >> tr '\r' '\n' < old_file > new_file
> > 
> > Michael,
> > 
> > As I've written, it should but doesn't.
> > 
> > The smallest file can be downloaded from <https://tinyurl.com/y54p8xgv>.
> 
> Looks like a mixture of line endings.  I'm seeing both CR and LF in that 
> file.
> 
> [galens at toto ~]$ wc -l Downloads/hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv
> 102 Downloads/hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv
> 
> Converting CR to LF and then counting lines yields 10801.
> 
> There's also one instance of a CRLF at the end of the file.
> 
> Perhaps there are some LF characters embedded in strings.  I didn't 
> bother to dive in any farther.

This looks like a file that was CRLF ending after it
has been mangled by a web download.... and was treated
as a text file type rather than a binary file so line
ending mangling did occur.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org