Remove CRs
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
kdk at daleco.biz
Fri Jan 16 08:16:41 PST 2004
Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>FreeBSD-
>>Please help, this is really important. I was told that i could get rid
>>of the ^m symbols at the end of the lines in my web page's html code
>>by using sed. They said to execute sed "s//^m^m" index.html >
>>index.html or something like that. This got rid of everything in the
>>file. I really need this back, so any help would be greatly
>>appreciated.
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OP, you've gotten all good advice---probably the best
is the "you do have backups, don't you?". As you learned
the hard way, sed(1) stands for "stream editor"; and it's
impossible to make the river flow in a circle. Too bad....
I'd probably check my original advice again, and
then complain if this wasn't noted. We certainly don't
need folks posting bogus info in the Internet ;-) I've a note
in $HOME in ALL CAPS reminding me of this sed, I
mean sad, fact after a similar mistake some time back.
Someone recomended dosunix (from ports) which is
fine; please be aware of the fact that the same quid
pro quo applies:
$dosunix foobar foobar
will still give you an empty file.
Kevin Kinsey
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