Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble

[Jeff Pinyan]

On May 10, David A. Desrosiers said:

>
>>    It didn't work ...
>>    the reason .. Attack of the ^M 's
>
>       perl is your friend:
>
>       perl -pi -e 's#\r\n#\n#g' formail.pl

Why use s/// if you don't have to?

  japhy% perl -pi -e 'tr/\r//d' files...

Why use Perl if you don't have to?

  japhy% tr -d '\r' < file > file.new; mv file.new file

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