On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:59:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2014 20:28:24 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > ... > > But with Apache 2.4, it treats the text file like html and reformats > > everything, concatenating lines, eliminating blank lines, etc. How do > > I get it to treat plain text like plain text again? > > Well, the joke is on me. The text file I was trying to view was a > Windows-style text file, with each line (except the last) ending in > a <CR><LF> combination. But it was being served up by Apache running > on Linux. Linux-style text files have each line (except the last) > end with only a simple <LF>. This apparently confused Microsoft > Internet Explorer and it did not recognize it as a plain text file. > The solution was simple enough: > > sed -e 's/^V^M$//' file.txt >newfile.txt > rm file.txt > mv newfile.txt file.txt
Even simpler: apt-cache show dos2unix :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140514011547.GA10891@tal
