Incidentally, I normally get rid of trailing carriage returns this way:
sed 's/\015$//' file.txt > newfile.txt
This deletes CR (octal 15) if and only if it's the last character on a
line. To filter either type of file, you can use:
sed -e 's/\015$//' -e 's/\015/\012/g' file.txt > newfile.txt
The first expression (after the '-e') replaces CRLF with LF, the second
replaces CR alone with LF. That way the file will end up a normal UNIX
text file no matter which kind it is.
Create a script that you can run from the shell with these commands.
sudo cat > /usr/local/bin/unixfy << \!
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/\015$//' -e 's/\015/\012/g' ${1+"$@"}
!
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/unixfy
Then from the command line you can do:
unixfy file.txt > newfile.txt
From textedit, you can use Devon Technologies' "Word Service" to
convert text between UNIX, Mac, and DOS line endings.
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.php
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