ASCII files becoming double lined

[Vaaf]

At 17:20 30.03.2006, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined.
> > As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line.
> >
> > Why is this? And:
> >
> > 01 How can I detect files with double lines?
> > 02 And then eliminate this double lining?
>
>Check out tr(1)
>It will quite easily remove the extra CR in every line.
>Then, if you need, you can rename the clean file to the dirty file
>   something like:   # tr -d "\r" < dirtyfile > cleanfile
>                     # mv cleanfile dirtyfile
>
>Sorry, it takes two steps.
>Thre are other methods that do it without a second file, but
>for newbies, this is easier to understand.
>
>////jerry
>
> >
> > The goal would be to apply 01 and 02 to this script:
> >
> > #!/usr/local/bin/bash
> > #
> > #   Remove CRLF, trailing whitespace and blank lines.
> > #   $MARBEJA: clean.sh,v 1.0 2007/11/11 15:09:05 awad Exp $
> > #
> >
> > for file in `find -s . -type f`; do
> >
> >       if file -b "$file" | grep -q 'text'; then
> >
> >               echo >> "$file"
> >
> >               tr -d '\r' < "$file" \
> >               | sed -E -e 's/[[:space:]]+$//' \
> >               | cat -s - > "${file}.tmp" && mv -f "${file}.tmp" "$file"
> >
> >               echo "$file: Done"
> >
> >       fi
> >
> > done
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vaaf
> >
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Thanks Jerry! But isn't this what my script already does?

As for Mr. Kennaway, if you had a big bugger up your nose the minute 
you're about
to go on a date, wouldn't you like an honest opinion?

Vaaf