How to replace ^M with a Hard Return with "sed"?

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+ Jolly Roger :

> In article ,
> Michael Vilain wrote:
>
>> cat filename | tr "\r" "\n" > newfilename
>
> BTW, you can do it without the cat and pipe [...]

In the (good?) old days that used to earn an immediate "useless use of
the cat award" on comp.unix.shell. Have they stopped handing those out?

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Vladimir Usenko writes:

>> It's there.
> I was saying that "I dunno about it" because I not have access and
> not working with MacOS... (I don't clean all newsgroup before sending
> answer).

I didn't know the newsgroup was dirty!

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Michael Vilain wrote:
> You want to replace the carriage return character (ASCII CONTROL-M or
> \015) with a new-line (ASCII CONTROL-J or \010). sed doesn't really
> handle control characters very will but there's a UNIX shell command
> that works better for this (tr--translate characters). So use this
> instead:
>
> cat filename | tr "\r" "\n" > newfilename

If you don't want to mess with a newfilename

perl -p -i -e 's:\r:\n:g;' filename


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