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From: mfuhr@dimensional.com (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dos2unix
Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:07:32 -0600
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Samath Wijesundera <samath@slt.lk> writes:
> Does anyone know if there is script or a utility to convert dos text
> files to unix format for BSD?
This strips carriage returns from the end of a line (dos2unix):
perl -pe 's/\r+$//' /path/to/your/file
This will add one (unix2dos):
perl -pe 's/$/\r/' /path/to/your/file
Hope this helps.
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Michael Fuhr
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