Re: LF to CR Conversion

[vmbb!pro-newton!pro-dan!danb (Dan Brown)]

In <35h9pe$jc8@panix2.panix.com> moxie@panix.com (Mark Mentovai) writes:

>how.  I want to know of a program for Unix that will change all Linefeeds 
>to Carriage Returns in a specified file, so I can compress it before 

        tr '\n' '\r' <inputfile.txt >outputfile.txt

                or

        tr '\012' '\015' <...

        Either will replace each newline (linefeed) with a carriage return,
taking input from inputfile.txt and sending output to outputfile.txt.

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