Re: [tlug] weird file format

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

And Thus Spake Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> (on Thu, 27 Mar 2003
17:11:36 +0900):

> I've just some html files with weird line delimiters just carriage
> return (hex 0d), no line feed. This stuff has come from a Web "Design"
> company, is that perhaps the Mac file format? 

Correct.

Unix -> 0x0a
Mac  -> 0x0d
Doze -> 0x0d 0x0a

> You can probably guess what grep, vi and sed think about these files.
> 
> sed won't pick up CRs, can someone suggest a way of turning these long
> haired hippy files into good old unix format?

Can you not pass the stuff through tr and get it to change CR's into LF's?

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