remove LF from windows text files 3

[letis]

Hello,

a quick question which I know could be adressed with awk or a vi macro, but I feel too lazy to dig the documentations ))

I've got an ascii text file made under windows, thus each end of line is coded with a CR/LF.

I put this file on an AIX box (BTW, I thought a ftp transfer in ascii mode would have removed the LF but it's not the case).

So now, how to remove the LF from the text file (note : ok perhaps I make a confusion between the CR and LF code, I just remember 2 codes are used on windows to make a line feed, versus one on Unix) ??

regards,

 

[trifo]

Feeling lazy? - RTFM ))

But for real, you are several tools to do it:

first is "tr" command
cat windowsfile.txt | tr -d "\015" > unixfile.txt

("\015" is the octal form of ASCII 13)

Other way is using dos2unix/unix2dos tools. But I feel using tr much more geek

--Trifo

 

[letis]

nice command, one more I wasn't aware of, adopted !


thanks,

 

[trifo]

May I have a star then?

 

[trifo]

Oh, I already have it. Thanks.

 

[frustin]

just as an amendment you could also vi the file and then:

:%s/<ctrl>v<ctrl>m//g

 

[letis]

yeap, the vi macro is cool too