This thread has morphed in to discussing ways to convert line endings.
I think the most portable tool is awk. I just love awk.
In the below one-liners, bns is the Braille 'N speak, or Macintosh; both use
only CR and not LF at the ends of lines:
from Unix to bns
awk '{ gsub("\r", "\n"); print $0;}' macfile.txt > unixfile.txt
from bns to unix
awk '{ gsub("\r", "\n"); print $0;}' macfile.txt > unixfile.txt
unix to Windows
awk '{ sub("\r$", ""); print }' winfile.txt > unixfile.txt
windows to unix
awk 'sub("$", "\r")' unixfile.txt > winfile.txt
Works in Netbsd, freebsd, Windows, DOS, ultrix, even vms, provided you got
awk.
--Debee
