[ILUG] silly shell thing

[Guest, Ken]

have you tried using vi?
:%s/^M//g

The ^M is entered as ctrl-V folled by "enter"

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#From: John P. Looney (Kate) [mailto:jplooney-ilug at online.ie]
#Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:25
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#Subject: [ILUG] silly shell thing
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# I've a file that for some reason a windows editor has put in double
#newlines everywhere.
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# Anyone got a good way of getting rid of them ? I tryed:
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#    cat file | tr -s \\n
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# and
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#    cat file | sed -e 's/\n\n/\n'
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# But neither did the trick...
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#Kate
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