Re: [tlug] When is a line feed really a line feed?

[Edmund Edgar <lists@example.com>]

On 4 December 2010 03:18, David J Iannucci <jlinux@example.com> wrote:

> I'm no authority on this stuff, but I think that \n doesn't refer to an
> actual character... I think it is an abstraction referring to whatever
> is the line terminator used by the OS at hand (making the other guy's
> statement somewhat tautological :-)

I've sometimes found I can solve line-return-related problems by doing
perl -i.bak -pe 's/\n/\n/g' myfile.txt

Reading this thread, I think I'm finally starting to understand why that works.

Although I still can't figure out what possessed me to try it in the
first place...

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