https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs
that covers it with emacs and if sed or tr is your speed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2613800/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-crlf-to-unix-newline-lf-in-a-bash-script --- Jason Barbier | E: ja...@corrupted.io GPG: FD7D2D5F0A0FBE39 (https://keybase.io/kusuriya) On Mon, Aug 12, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I have large (~111M) .csv data files exported from a Microsoft Access > database. Each file is one large block of text using ^M (carriage return) > embedded as the line separator. > > 'sed' is probably the best tool to translate that control character to a > newline (\n) but I don't know how to write '^M' so sed recognizes it as a > single character. In emacs it displays colored cyan rather than white. > > A web search told me that ^M is equivalent to the linux \r, but not how to > specify it for sed or emacs. > > Pointers needed. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
