Re: tr problem

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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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- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer                       rps2@xxxxxxxx -
- Hosting Consulting, Inc.                                           -
-                                                                    -
- I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do  -
-                                  in it.                            -
-                                                      -- WC. Fields -
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