Re: OT - DOS vs Linux text files?

[Lance Levsen <l.levsen@printwest.com>]

> Highlighting and pasting from what I think is an origionally created in
> windows text file to a linux file produces successive lines that are indented
> across the screen.  However when I create a file in linux and then highlight
> and paste into another file it works fine.  I think the files that are
> giving me trouble are windows created because I see:
> 
> "BlessedEquipment.html" [dos] 127L, 4640C written
> 
> when I :w in vim.  If the problem is they were created within windows then
> what is it I need to strip out of the files?  Use perl to do it?
 
> Bill

Hey Bill. Perl is exactly the tool to do this. I admin an environment catering 
to Macs and this is the same thing. What you want to do is get the hex code 
for the DOS CR/LF. (I think it's \x0D\x0A) and changed it to \n.

The script for this is:

$> perl -pi.old -e 's/\x0D\x0A/\n/g;' readme.txt

This will substitute newlines for CR/LF in readme.txt and create 
readme.txt.old as a backup.

HTH. Cheers,


-- 
Lance Levsen, Programmer
Product Innovation
PWGroup - S'toon.
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