[ale] perl help

[Cade Thacker]

If you are changing multiple files then that works, if you are just using
one, then open it with vim and type :set fileformat=unix  and that should
do the trick!

Also just so you kow :set fileformat=dos sets it back.

Hope this helps.

--cade

On Linux vs Windows
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On 12 Apr 2002, Fletch wrote:

>
>         Copying this back to the list just in case I confuzzled anyone
> else out there . . . :)
>
>
> >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net> writes:
>
>     Matthew> I'm sorry, but I am not sure what this one does.  Could
>     Matthew> you explain?  It looks like you're searching for all the
>     Matthew> .bak files, then I don't understand the -pe, or the stuff
>     Matthew> inside the pattern part of the s///.
>
>         perldoc perlrun explains all of the magic, but to take it
> piece by piece:
>
>     Me> $ perl -i.bak -pe 's/\cM+$//' lalala
>
>         `-i.bak' says edit files in place, making a backup of the
> original with the extension .bak (so you'd get lalala.bak)
>
>
>         `-p' says wrap the entire program in
>
>
> while( <ARGV> ) {
>   ...
> } continue {
>   print
> }
>
>
>         which basically will iterate over all of the files named on
> the command line line by line, executing whatever code was provided in
> place of the `...' and printing $_ before reading the next line.
> compare and contrast with -n.
>
>
>         `-e' provides code as the next argument (rather than it having
> to be in a file), in this case the code being . . .
>
>
>         `s/\cM+$//' says replace one or more control-M's before the end
> of the line with nothing.
>
>
>         `lalala' represents the file (or files) that you want to
> munge.
>
>
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