On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 18:53 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >>>> > >>>> The manpage (and pinfo tr too) is, shall we say, completely lacking > >>>> in how to handle the file I/O. > >>>> > >>> 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. > > It reads stdin and writes stdout, like most unix command line programs. > The shell will connect those to whatever you want with |'s or > <>'s. Using cat with a pipe is a waste of a process, though. tr can > read it's own input just as well with <input-filename. Quite true, but I remember a remark in one of the classic Unix papers to the effect that people somehow found the 'cat foo | ' syntax more natural. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
