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

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From: Ian Crew (icrew@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 15:37:17 PST

Have you tried using sed? I believe the syntax would be:

        sed -n 's/^M/\r/gw output_file' input_file

(That's totally untested, but should work....)

Ian

> 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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