[techtalk] vi technique for dos2unix

[Amanda Babcock]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Sean McAfee wrote:

>Allow me to suggest a much shorter alternative:
>
>perl -i -pe 'tr/\015//d' file1 file2 ...

Actually, the key part of Christian's script is even shorter:

>>  then cat $1 | tr -d "\015" > $1

In other words, cat file1 | tr -d "\015" > file2.  I think this is shorter
than your perl solution.

The rest of the script was error-checking, which neither of the above
one-liners does.

Amanda