[ale] Turning CR into LF in text file

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Fulton" == Fulton Green <ale at FultonGreen.com> writes:

    Fulton> Stupid question, but what the hey: Someone emailed me a
    Fulton> PageMaker document that they had converted to HTML.  The
    Fulton> HTML attachment contains a bunch of carriage returns (^M)
    Fulton> w/o the corresponding linefeeds (^J). How do I convert for
    Fulton> UNIX-style consumption?

        In addition to all the other solutions offered there's always:


perl -pe 's/\cM+$//' < oldfile > newfile


        Or just do it in place with no redirection:


perl -i -pe 's/\cM+$//' oldfile


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