[techtalk] dos to unix

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:34:55PM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Nancy Corbett thought:
> 
> I know I've seen someone use a command something like dostounix to convert
> text docs written with something like notepad, etc into plain ol ascii... 
> 
> I have a bunch of perl scripts I just inherited and they have a ^M at the
> end of every line.  I know I could just do a command in vi to get rid of
> them, but I've ben straining my brain (not a difficult thing to do
> today) to remember that dostounix thingie.  If it is just dostounix, it
> seems that my shell acct with my ISP doesn't know what that is. Grrr.
> 

man tr

then 

cat file-with-
-characters | tr -d <CTRL+v><ENTER>  >
file-without-
-characters

thassit.

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)