How do I remove cr's from a file ??

[Lee Oliver]

Hello all,

I wondered if you could help.....

I need to remove cr's (carriage returns) from a file.

many thanks
Lee

[KapilRaj]

cat filename |tr "\n" " "

Cheers

Kaps

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

Hi,
try this:
# tr -d "\012" <./infile > ./outfile

regards,
John K.

[Lee Oliver]

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work.

Cheers
Lee

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

# perl -pe 's/\r//g' yourfile > newfile

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Lee Oliver]

Thanks John, That worked a treat. 10/10.

Cheers
Lee

[John Poff]

Hi,

You can also use the 'dos2ux' command.

JP

[Massimo Bianchi]

check the commands


dos2ux

and

ux2dos


they exists just for that :)

Massimo

[john korterman]

Hi again,
well, I guess that your CRs are not byte 10. Please create the file myfile with only two lines holding this text:

line1
line2

and post the output of this command:
# head myfile| od -x

it should look like this:
0000000 6c69 6e65 310a 6c69 6e65 320a
0000014


regards,
John K.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

you can also use ftp to transfer the binary to your computer and then ascii back.

greetings,

Michael

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

Johns doesnt work. It deletes the newlines. To delete carriage returns, you would have to use:

tr -d "\015" <./infile > ./outfile

greetings,

Michael

[Rory R Hammond]

You alread have lots of answers

\n is a line feed
\012 is also line feed

\r is carriage return
\015 is also carriage return

so "cat |filename |tr -d "\r" "" > newfile"

will remove carriage returns.

If the data file you have was a binary transfer of text text file from an Old Mac you would need to translate
the \r to \n becuase they only had \r

so "cat |filename |tr "\r" "\n" > newfile"


"strings filename > newfile"
will also work

When ftp'ing textfiles between different platforms (windows,mac and unix). set the file type to ascii and your \cr\lf,\cr,\lf problems will be less
Rory