On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jim Reimer wrote about, Re: converting text files from dos:
> I'm not familiar with the magic that sed invokes, and I can't get this
> to do anything. outfile ends up the same as infile. If it makes any
> difference, the file I'm working on is from the weather bureau, and they
> are apparently adhering to the old radioteletype standard of hitting the
> return key twice and the line feed key once, because lines are delimited
> with CR CR LF instead of just CR LF.
>
> At any rate,
> sed '{}' mlc.nmos > newfile
> (mlc.nmos is the actual file name) produces 'newfile' that still contains
> the CR CR LF sequences.
>
> I have a Perl script now that will take care of the job, but I'd still
> like to see a shell-oriented solution.
Huum i see, i did not try it, i got it from another list, however one which
does work is;
sed 's/.$//'
I get my examples from;
http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/sed1line.txt
It is one hell of a helpfull page when one writes scripts.
I took a look at your web page, i understand why you want a script.
73's.
> Regards,
> Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
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> http://www.webzone.net/jdreimer
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