Re: [tlug] weird file format

["Jim O'Connell" <oconnell@example.com>]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:11:36 +0900
Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> wrote:
Subject: [tlug] weird file format
> 
> 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? 
> 
> 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?
> 

If you can 'see' them in vi, you should be able to replace them.  
If you're seeing ^Ms stuck in the middle of the line, the (ex) command is completely unintuitive:

:1,$ s/^V^M/^V^M/g

Type that as :1,$ s/<control-V control-M>/<control-V control-M>/g

Yes, it looks like you're substituting in the same character.  Yes, it's strange.  But it usually works.

(If you're not seeing ^M, play around with the first part of the substitution.)

If you need to use it in a script, do it with ex.

Cheers,
Jim



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