Re: tr problem

On Thursday 12 June 2008, 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.

It did Mike, thanks. Legacy in this case is a TRS-80 Color Computer 3, now old
enough to buy a drink in any state of the union. The OS was originally OS-9,
but we've been working on it, so its quite a bit faster than the original.

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