CRLF conversion help needed

[Gary Hines]

Hi,
I need a little help trying to convert CRLF. However, it's not the normal end-of-line conversion. I need to convert CRLF into a space. Any ideas on how I can go about doing this?
I've tried:
cat testfile | sed s/\\015\\012/ /g > tempfile
but that doesn't seem to do it.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

First, try dos2unix

This sometimes does the trick.

Also, can you provide a file sample so we can look at it in hex and provide you a simple, scripted or perl based solution.

SEP

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Gary:

# perl -pe 's%\r\n% %' file

...or if you want to update in-place, preserving a copy of 'file' as 'file.old':

# perl -pi.old -e 's%\r\n% %' file

Regards!

...JRF...

[Gary Hines]

Perfect James! Just what I needed. Thanks very much!