Re: [MAGNet] OSX text file line break conversion -- s/^M/\r/g

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From: Ghaouar Camij Toschian (gct@pasteur.EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 10:28:43 PST

You can use an emacs macro to do that, if all the files are in 1 directory,
that makes it easier.

Thank you very much.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
 Thanks, G Camij Toschian,
gct@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu, EECS Instructional & Electronics Support Group
 / 386 Cory Hall / 510 643-6138

Greg Merritt wrote:
>
> I'm sending data files between FileMaker databases and perl
> scripts on an OSX machine. FileMaker dumps data with Macintosh line
> breaks, but perl likes Unix-style line breaks.
>
> Does anybody know of a command-line utility or script to
> convert Macintosh line breaks to Unix line breaks? I'm currently
> using BBEdit "by hand" to open the file and change & save formats,
> but would prefer to have my script do this for me (call me lazy).
>
> -Greg Merritt
> Institute of Transportation Studies
>
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