Re: World Files

From: Harald Evensen (Harald.Evensen@pvv.unit.no)
Date: 10/12/94


> 
> According to you:
> > 
> > [text deleted]
> > 
> > on a unix system you can type : cat <file> | tr -d '\015' > <newfile>
> > and all the ^Ms are gone.
> > On some unix systems(like sunos) you also got a command called d2u
> > which also removed them.(dos to unix).
> > 
> > regards, Harald
> > 
> 
> But who wants to do that for 200+ files?  I wrote a script to do it:
> 
> Assuming you are using CSH or TCSH:
> 
> foreach FILE in (*)
>   cat $FILE | sed 's/
//g' > $FILE.new
> end
> 
> -- 
> mshapiro@explorer.csc.com
> God doesn't believe in Atheists - Matthew 12:30
> GCS p c++++ l+ u+ e+ m+ s n- h f+ !g w+++ t-- r y?
> 
well, was just giving out the basics. Should have posted it to the list I guess

most people SHOULD be able to write such a script anyways.

btw: the script would look like this in SH/BASH:

for file in *; do
cat $FILE | tr -d '\015' > $FILE.new
done

regards, Harald



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