Re: LF to CR Conversion

[neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)]

In article <35hdq1$hp7@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu>,
Jason Simmons <jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>In article <35h9pe$jc8@panix2.panix.com> moxie@panix.com (Mark Mentovai) writes:
>>I want to know of a program for Unix that will change all Linefeeds 
>>to Carriage Returns in a specified file,
>
>tr can do this.  Pipe your file through "tr '\015' '\012'".
>
   Ummmmm. And when you're wondering why that didn't work, try:

tr '\012' '\015'

Sorry Jason!

BTW, here's the script I use for this purpose:


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#! /bin/sh
#
# A script to convert line feeds (chr$ 0x0A) to carriage returns (0x0D)
# in each file named on the invocation line.
#
# Usage:  lf2cr <fname1> ... <fname_n>
#
scratch=tempfile$$
for i
do
	tr '\012' '\015' < $i > $scratch
	mv $scratch $i
done
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