Tuesday, March 16, 2010

TR (bash)

Can use tr to remove all carriage returns and Ctrl-z ( ^Z ) characters from a Windows file by entering:

tr -d '\15\32' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txt

tr '\r' '\n' < web_to_print_compare-edited.csv > unixfile.csv


Note: cannot use tr to convert a document from Unix format to Windows

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