will dos2unix do what he wants? Steve
Steve Howard Software Trainer Information Technology Services Kennesaw State University 770-423-6895 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/02 07:19AM >>> Mikevl wrote: >Hi > >On the odd occasion I have stored scripts like smb.conf and crontab on a >Windows file system i.e. my notebook for transporting from one Linux machine >to another. This inevitably leads to corruption of the file. Characters >appear to get added to the end of each line and heaven knows where else. > >Is there any way to "Clean" a file once it put back on my/any Linux system? >I have found that dragging the file from Linux PC to Linux PC over the >network helps but this seems extreme. > > >Many thanks > >Mike > > For text files, lines in Windows usually is terminated by CR-LF (0D 0A in Hex), however, usually lines in Linux terminated only by LF (0A in Hex). To remove the CR (carriage-return), you can use tr command (see man tr) Try this: tr -d '\015' < input_file > output_file this will delete all CRs (\015 in octal) in input_file. lawu -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
