tr problem
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jun 12 20:35:09 UTC 2008
Hi folks;
I'm trying to convert a test file, src code for a legacy computer, whose eol is
a single cr into one with a newline subbed for each cr, and tr is being a pita,
it broken, or there is PEBKAC.
If I use this syntax:
tr -c \r \n <filename >filename2
Then the whole file is converted to nnnnnnnnnn's, every byte.
The manpage (and pinfo tr too) is, shall we say, completely lacking in how to
handle the file I/O.
So how do you use tr?"
Or is there a better tool for this than tr?
Thanks.
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