On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Geof Steichen wrote:
> I discovered, using the hex editor, that the scripts on the cdrom from
> "Linux Shells by Example" terminate each line with a carrage return
> followed by a line feed (hex 0d0a) combination. The lines of the
> identical script entered using vi terminates each line with just the
> line feed (hex 0a). The script entered using vi runs from the
> command line by entering just the scriptname. The scripts from the
> cdrom (lines terminated by CR/LF) do not run from the command line
> directly. They do not run correctly even if invoked by saying "bash
> scriptname".
>
> How can I strip the CR (hex 0d) from the lines in the scripts from
> the cdrom. Can gawk do it? It seems possible to process the file
> and strip the CR characters out piping stdout to a file on the
> harddisk. Can someone show me how?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Geof A. Steichen
> Mandrake 7.1 Linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I use an alias in TC shell like so:
tr -d '\015' < \!:1 > \!:2
Called from the command line for instance like this:
cleanlines oldfile newfile
This simply deletes all the ASCII 0xd characters.
You could use the transform command directly:
tr -d '\015' < oldfile > newfile
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