tr problem

[Les Mikesell]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>>>
>>>> The manpage (and pinfo tr too) is, shall we say, completely lacking 
>>>> in how to handle the file I/O.
>>>>
>>> Plus, you probably have a program called dos2unix installed...
>>
>> Oops, I should have read past the word 'legacy' which must not have 
>> meant what I thought.
>> tr '\r' '\n'
>> should work.
> 
> More like:
> 
>     cat input-filename | tr '\r' '\n' >output-filename
> 
> Not so?  tr is a filter.

It reads stdin and writes stdout, like most unix command line programs. 
      The shell will connect those to whatever you want with |'s or 
<>'s.  Using cat with a pipe is a waste of a process, though.  tr can 
read it's own input just as well with <input-filename.

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   Les Mikesell
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