[ale] FAQ alert: Losing ^M

[Randolph C. Karrh]

Michael:

This is excellent!

Randy


On Tue, 7 May 2002 16:42:23 -0400
"Michael D. Hirsch" <mdhirsch at mail.com> wrote:

> Joseph A Knapka writes:
>  > Can someone please remind me of the name of the
>  > "translate character" command? I need to lose carriage
>  > returns from a file I brought over from a Winders box.
> 
> The best solution I know is to install recode.  Then put these two
> aliases in your .bashrc:
> 
> alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1'
> alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc'
> 
> recode can do a heck of a lot more recodings than these two.
> 
> --Michael
> 
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