Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 00:00, David Jardine wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> > Wouldn't
> > $ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile
> >
> > do it?
>
> For me that doubles each newline, but I can't see why. But
>
> $ tr -d '\r' < dosfile > unixfile
>
> seems to do it.
[...]
All goes to show I should RTFM before posting. I had only used tr for
mac-unix and unix-mac before, so I was guessing. -d is obviously
logical (after reading the man page).
--
richard
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