eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello list, I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck. Here's the line that I'm trying to use: #sed -i '.bak' 's/^M//g' config.php Howeve

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 20 11:11:00 2012 > Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:08:04 -0400 > From: Tim Dunphy > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: eliminate character with sed > > Hello list, > > I have a few php config files that have the windows de

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 May 2012 12:08:04 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter > character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying > to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck. > > Here's the line t

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: Regarding the use of "sed": I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like % sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself and surprise me. :

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Ross
Am 20.05.2012, 18:08 Uhr, schrieb Tim Dunphy : Hello list, I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck. Here's the line that I'm trying to

Re: eliminate character with sed

2012-05-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:10:51 +0200, Michael Ross wrote: > Maybe you can use /usr/ports/converters/dosunix. > > Usage: > dosunix INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE > > DosUnix converts files from DOS text format to Unix text format > by replacing each carriage return & newline pair wit