Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:07:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Wouldn't
> > $ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile
> > do it?
>
> David Jardine wrote:
> > For me that doubles each newline, but I can't see why.
>
>
> >From the tr man page:
>
> SET2 is extended to length of SET1 by repeating its last character as
> necessary.
Ah, yes. Thanks. Now let's see what we can use this for...
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David Jardine
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loving every minute of it." -Sacher M.
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