Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file

[Larry Hall <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

At 11:49 AM 2/2/2001, Brian Keener wrote:
>I was working on some code and output a text file which displays fine in 
>cygwin but I wanted to email the text to someone from within windows and 
>if I look at the text in wordpad it looks fine but if I look at it in 
>notepad then it is screwy and in either case if I try to cut and paste 
>into my email program then the text is still real screwy and I don't want 
>to have to edit it.  I assume this is a CR/LF issue - not a bug - I just 
>can't figure out how to change it.
>
>The text was originally created by sending to /tmp/foo which is on / 
>which is a binary mount and so I did a 
>
>cat /tmp/foo > /windows/temp/foo 
>
>in which case /windows is a text mount thinking this would fix it, but it 
>does not.  If I however go back and recreate the text file by outputting 
>it to /windows/temp/foo in the first place - then wordpad, notepad and my 
>email on like it, again I am assuming this is CR/LF related but that is 
>an assumption.
>
>Can someone provide me with a line that allows me to do a conversion 
>after the fact like this or is there such a beast - On some unixen we had 
>dos2unix and such.



How about piping it through tr, mapping \n to \r\n?



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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