Re: Irregular character search and replace?

[Nicola Larosa <nico tekNico net>]

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> sed -i "s/\r//" $2

If by chance you use this on a Macintosh text file, you will get one long,
lonely line.

Try these two commands (order is important), they work on Mac, Dos and Unix files.

# convert Dos files only, leave the others untouched
sed -i "s/\r\n/\n/" $2
# any CR left? Could be a Mac file
sed -i "s/\r/\n/" $2

Whatever you do, don't use these commands on binary files. ;^)


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