Les Mikesell wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer,
whose eol is a single cr into one with a newline subbed for each cr,
and tr is being a pita, it broken, or there is PEBKAC.
If I use this syntax:
tr -c \r \n <filename >filename2
Then the whole file is converted to nnnnnnnnnn's, every byte.
The manpage (and pinfo tr too) is, shall we say, completely lacking
in how to handle the file I/O.
So how do you use tr?"
Or is there a better tool for this than tr?
The tr syntax would be
tr -d '\r'
but for one or a few files you can just load in vi (vim) and
:set fileformat=unix
and write it back out.
Plus, you probably have a program called dos2unix installed...
Oops, I should have read past the word 'legacy' which must not have
meant what I thought.
tr '\r' '\n'
should work.
More like:
cat input-filename | tr '\r' '\n' >output-filename
Not so? tr is a filter.
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