Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

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

Yannick Jestin <jestin@cena.fr> writes:

> > t s a d i <ch4di@yahoo.com> writes:
> [...]
> > > has the character "^M" all over it (caused when someone uploads a
> text
> 
>   Olaf's solution is a bit complex, I'd say. It involves a 'rm', and
> it can be dangerous !

Would you care to enlighten me and the rest of the list?  The original
file is only removed if `tr' succeeded.

For reference, I suggested:

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

> The sysutils package, at least in slink and potato, has the dos2unix
> program.
> 
>  $ dos2unix *

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development