Removing Windows carriage-returns from text files

[chebe]

Hey all, don't think I've seen this here before, and I know there are many ways of doing this, so I thought, in a fit of geekery, that it might be fun to try and collect them all! Afterall everyone does have their own favourite programs.

I posted this at my own journal when I first came across it, but here's a new one as well;

sed -i 's/\r//' $file_name

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/g' $file_name

Comments

[rpdom]

Also, if you don't mind having to write the output to another file

tr -d'\r' <$file_name1 >$file_name2

I like your methods too :)

Line-Feeds

[babysprite]

Thank you for these.

I'll add them to my scripts collection.

Whenever possible, I convert word-processed documents and save text as "US-ASCII" with the Dell Workstation in my office and my PowerBook at home.

My favorite text-editor is vim, for which I use "!fmt" to format text within the document. That usually removes the Windows CR/LF.

Thanks, again.

Robert

[sophie]

I normally have the programs dos2unix and unix2dos installed for this; they're pretty commonly found. It is, of course, a simple task to do yourself, but still :D

[jld]

My .exrc has this:

" remove CRs
map *@ :%s/^V^V^M$//^M

Where the ^V and ^M are the actual literal control characters. (I'm not completely sure there aren't nviisms hiding in that, so beware.) I wrote it for the specific purpose of editing cddb files in abcde.