[SLUG] Re: Unix >< DOS text converter

[Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

\begin{Jamie Wilkinson}
> >can anyone recommend a text file converter running on Windows, that converts
> >DOS into Linux/UNIX and vice versa?

> something like sed 's/\r\n/\n/' but last time I checked, sed doesn't support
> newline characters in regexs.

that's because \n is called $ in sed (line-based) speak ;)

  sed 's/\r$//'

i'm not sure sed allows \r escapes.. you might want to try:
  sed s/`echo -ne \\r`'$//'
but then that just depends on your version of echo ..


the gnu version does actually support newlines, you just have to
actually include a real life newline character:

Miscellaneous notes
       This version of sed supports a \<newline> sequence in  all
       regular  expressions, the replacement part of a substitute
       (s) command, and  in  the  source  and  dest  parts  of  a
       transliterate  (y)  command.   The  \ is stripped, and the
       newline is kept.

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 - Gus