[SunHELP] Those damn ^M's

Nicholas Dronen sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 2 17:11:21 CST 2001


On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 12:24:55AM +0300, Bashar wrote:
> 
> 	perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' <file>
> 
> 	this will do a backfile of the original file named <file>.bak if
> you dont want a backup remove the .bak

This one is even more useful when you have a set of files
from which you want to remove 
's.  To take your example,

$ perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' $(find /dir -name '*.c' -print)

Regards,

Nicholas Dronen



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