On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:13:30PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Mahurin <rob@utk.edu> [2002-09-11 23:09:08 -0400]: > > Copy to me, I'm not on the list. Thanks, > > What's the perl command to convert a text file from DOS or unix > > newline format to the macintosh newline format? (CR->LF?) > > You know you could google for that information probably quicker. But > I am a sucker for those types of questions... Does it have need to be > perl? These are off of the top of my head and there may be mistakes > here. YMMV, etc., etc. > > MAC to UNIX: > > tr "\015" "\012" < uxfile > macfile Yup, that was it. I actually used "\r" and "\n", which are easier to remember than the numbers and work fine. I asked the list rather than searching on google because when I had time to read debian-user I always learned a lot from off-topic posts like this. Perhaps not the most efficient use of the internet but the internet is hardly optimized for efficiency. Thanks again, Rob -- Garbage In, Gospel Out
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