--- Maxim Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Curtis, > > Thursday, September 13, 2001, Curtis Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > CP> That will show non-printing characters (-v) and the end of line will be >indicated with a > dollar > CP> sign (-E). If you see a ^M before the end of line, you have saved the file in >DOS mode. To > fix > CP> it, use an inplace edit: > > CP> perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' somescript.pl > > CP> Just be sure to back up the file first! > > -i does backup for you ? The -i switch is for the "inplace edit". However, if you don't specify an extension, it will not create a backup. Here's how I might edit a file on my Win2K box: perl -pi.bak -e "s/\n/\r\n/g" somescript.pl That will backup somescript.pl to somescript.pl.bak. I should have pointed that out in the first place (in other words, I should have read the docs :). Cheers, Curtis "Ovid" Poe ===== Senior Programmer Onsite! Technology (http://www.onsitetech.com/) "Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]