From: Guest, Ken (kengu at domain credo.ie)
Date: Wed 24 May 2000 - 11:33:48 IST
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 domain online.ie]
#Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 11:25
#To: Irish LUG list
#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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