Re: [ILUG] silly shell thing

From: lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com
Date: Wed 24 May 2000 - 11:30:25 IST


On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:25:27AM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> I've a file that for some reason a windows editor has put in double
> newlines everywhere.
>
> Anyone got a good way of getting rid of them ? I tryed:
>
> cat file | tr -s \\n
>
> and
>
> cat file | sed -e 's/\n\n/\n'
did you try:
cat file | sed -e 's/\r\n/\n'

?
Solaris also has dos2unix, which is handy :)

L.

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