Re: tr problem

On Thursday 12 June 2008, 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 that might be something that is not in the vim manpages Mike, thanks.

and write it back out.

Plus, you probably have a program called dos2unix installed...

That is the other option & with my CRS, I couldn't remember that name with a
$1000 bill being offered. I'm seemingly being reminded that memory is the
second thing to go. :)

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