[Techtalk] real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 10 January 2004 12:19, Brenda Bell wrote:
> A command I use a lot is:
>
>     cat dos-file.txt | sed -e '1,$s\^M\\g' >linux-file.txt
>
> But that's because I'm always copying files edited on Windows to
> my Linux box with the wrong format.  Note that the ^M is ctrl-M
> which must be entered on the command line as ctrl-V ctrl-M.

Why not just use

$ dos2unix dos-file.txt
or
$ dos2unix -n dos-file.txt linux-file.txt

A bit easier to remember.  It is also available on Cygwin, for those of use 
that occasionally get stuck wanting to edit and save a Linux file while 
working on Windows.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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