getting rid of ^M

[Thomas Wildeman]

openbsd-newbies at sfobug.org on Friday, September 1, 2006 at 12:00 PM -0800
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>   1. getting rid of ^M (Craig Hammond)
>   2. Re: getting rid of ^M (Florin Iamandi)
>   3. RE: Re: getting rid of ^M (tony at servacorp.com)
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>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:21:22 +1000
>From: "Craig Hammond" <Craig at sbisolutions.com.au>
>Subject: getting rid of ^M
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>Hi,
>After FTPing a heap of files from Windows to OBSD, I have found that
>a lot of the text them have a ^M at the end of each line. Is there any
>easy way
>to recursively strip out the ^M of all affected files in a number of
>directories.
> 
>I've searched around and tried various dos-unix utilities both on the
>windows
>and the obsd box but i'm not having much luck yet.
> 
>Thanks,
>Craig.
> 
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:42:55 +0200
>From: Florin Iamandi <florin.i at tiscali.it>
>Subject: Re: getting rid of ^M
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>Craig Hammond dixit (2006-09-01, 10:20:04):
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>> After FTPing a heap of files from Windows to OBSD, I have found that a
>> lot of the text them have a ^M at the end of each line. Is there any
>> easy way to recursively strip out the ^M of all affected files in a
>> number of directories.
>
>Use something like this, where ^M is obtained by pressing CTRL-V
>followed by CTRL-M:
>
>for i in `ls`; do sed 's/^M//g' $i > $i.new;done
>
>-- 
>Digitally yours,
>Florin Iamandi (Slippery)
>Reason is the first victim of emotion. -- Scytale, Dune Messiah
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:58:26 -0400
>From: tony at servacorp.com
>Subject: RE: Re: getting rid of ^M
>To: florin.i at tiscali.it, florin.i at tiscali.it,
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>florin.i at tiscali.it wrote:
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>>Craig Hammond dixit (2006-09-01, 10:20:04):
>>
>>> After FTPing a heap of files from Windows to
>>OBSD, I have found that a
>>> lot of the text them have a ^M at the end of each
>>line. Is there any
>>> easy way to recursively strip out the ^M of all
>>affected files in a
>>> number of directories.
>>
>>Use something like this, where ^M is obtained by
>>pressing CTRL-V
>>followed by CTRL-M:
>>
>>for i in `ls`; do sed 's/^M//g' $i > $i.new;done
>>
>
>This may be an OUCH
>
>DOS text lines end with <Carriage-Return><Line-Feed>
>UNIX text lines end with <Line-Feed>
>Apple text lines end with <Carriage-Return>  (or some such)
>
>FTP transfers from one kind of system to another will take care of the
>different line-endings on an ASCII transfer.
>An ASCII transfer of a binary file tends to wreck the file. Getting rid
>of all the Carriage-Returns (anywhere in the file) would do even more
>damage.
>
>Unixy systems may have a pair of dos2unix and unix2dos programs designed
>to convert text files from one kind to the other.

Hello,

Try using these aliases, just put them in your .profile if you use ksh:>

alias m2u='tr '\''\015'\'' '\''\012'\'''
alias u2m='tr '\''\012'\'' '\''\015'\'''

I hope that helps,

Thomas Wildeman

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