Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp> writes:

> t s a d i <ch4di@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> >     i have a truckload oftext files (.html) that i need to edit and it
> > has the character "^M" all over it (caused when someone uploads a text
> > file and the ftp transfer is set to binary).
> > 
> >     does anyone know of a way to automate this ?
> 
> At your shell prompt do:
> 
>   for file in *; do
>     mv $file $file.old
>     tr -d '\015' < $file.old > $file && rm $file.old
>   done
> 
> The '\015' is octal for CTRL-M (^M).

Well, you said you wanted to *delete* them (and that's what the above
faithfully does!), but I guess you'd like the keep the line breaks.

  for file in *; do
    mv $file $file.old
    tr '\015' '\012' < $file.old > $file && rm $file.old
  done

But then again, for HTML it shouldn't matter much ;-)

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development