replace carriage returns - the final solution

[Kenneth Brody]

"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:20:51AM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
> >    Thanks to all and a special thanks to Ted Dodd.
> >    Here is what I ended up doing.
[...]
> That's easier to read, certainly... but it's probably more efficient to
> do it as a pipeline:
> 
> cat $1 |
>   tr -d '\000' |
>   sed 's/~//g' |
>   tr -d '\r' |
>   tr -d '\n' |
>   cat >/appl/servefx/shared/working/$1
[...]

Can't you combine all the "tr -d"s?

   tr -d '\000\r\n' | sed 's/~//g' >/appl/servefx/shared/working/$1

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