Re: New bug found (I think)

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On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 16:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:21 -0700, Les wrote:
> > I use lots of things across systems, and have used the command:
> > 
> > 	dos2unix <xxx.txt >temp.txt
> > 
> > for years to accomplish this task.  Well, imagine my surprise when it
> > failed to work today.  I don't know when dos2unix was last visited, but
> > it no longer works.  Its simple effect on Microsoft files was to change
> > the carriage return (^M) to linefeed (^j).  This time it passed the file
> > through unchanged.  
> > 
> > I can write my own version in about 2 seconds, but I am curious why such
> > a simple and useful function acquired numerous flags and options, and
> > then broke.  This is a great example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix
> > it!"
> > 
> > Just for your information:
> > 
> > [lesh@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/dos2unix
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15868 2007-02-06 08:45 /usr/bin/dos2unix
> > [lesh@localhost ~]$ which dos2unix
> > /usr/bin/dos2unix
> > [lesh@localhost ~]$ 
> > 
> > 	I have to admit I probably haven't used it locally since upgrading to
> > FC7 from FC5.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Les H
> > 
> This can be done in vi very easily by the collowing command:
> :1,$s/^V^M//
> Where ^=ctrl

No need for vi:

tr -d "\015" < in > out

Of course both of these only work for ASCII. If it's Unicode, all bets
are off.

poc

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