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Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file
- To: bkeener at thesoftwaresource dot com,cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:07:10 -0500
At 11:49 AM 2/2/2001, Brian Keener wrote:
>I was working on some code and output a text file which displays fine in
>cygwin but I wanted to email the text to someone from within windows and
>if I look at the text in wordpad it looks fine but if I look at it in
>notepad then it is screwy and in either case if I try to cut and paste
>into my email program then the text is still real screwy and I don't want
>to have to edit it. I assume this is a CR/LF issue - not a bug - I just
>can't figure out how to change it.
>
>The text was originally created by sending to /tmp/foo which is on /
>which is a binary mount and so I did a
>
>cat /tmp/foo > /windows/temp/foo
>
>in which case /windows is a text mount thinking this would fix it, but it
>does not. If I however go back and recreate the text file by outputting
>it to /windows/temp/foo in the first place - then wordpad, notepad and my
>email on like it, again I am assuming this is CR/LF related but that is
>an assumption.
>
>Can someone provide me with a line that allows me to do a conversion
>after the fact like this or is there such a beast - On some unixen we had
>dos2unix and such.
How about piping it through tr, mapping \n to \r\n?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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