Re: replacing CR/LF

* Marcus Andree S. Magalhaes <marcus(dot)magalhaes(at)vlinfo(dot)com(dot)br> [110703, 22:49]:
> Hello, all.
>
> I have some data imported from some windows text files with a couple
> DOS end-of-line characters (CRLF) on it.
>
> Is there any simple way to remove them all, or just replace them with a
> single whitespace character??

Try 'dos2linux' to get rid of ^M (carriage return at end of line)
# Use: dos2linux file_dos file_unix
# Warning: if you use the same name for the two files you will loose
# your data!

Very useful can be 'tr' also:

# tr -d '\015'< $1 > $2
# tr -d '\r'< $1 > $2

# OKOKOK QUESTI COMANDI SONO UTILI:
$ tr '\n' ' ' < provosed> provosed2 # replace space to new-line
$ tr -s '\***' '\§' < provosed2> provosed3 # replaces asterisks with §
$ tr '\§' '\n' < provosed3> provosed2 # replaces § with carriage-return

I hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ennio.
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