Re: LF --> CR on a UNIX?? HELP!

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

kenh@pacifier.rain.com (Ken Hoffmann) writes:


>Hello, all... I would like for someone to re-post the little shell script
>that converts UNIX textfiles to apple-readable textfiles... Somehow 
>converting LFs to CRs... 

If this is not in the FAQ, it should be :) Use tr to accomplish what you
want. The following line will translate LF->CR:

tr "\012" "\015" <infile >outfile

Note that some architectures may require a different quoting style
for the octal numbers. See man tr on your machine for more info.

Soenke
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