replace carriage returns - the final solution

[Richard D. Williams]

Kenneth Brody,

Well, I thought because these chars. don't happen in a sequence I would 
do it individually.
If I do it your way will the tr treat the chars. as a group occurrence, 
or individually?

Richard

Kenneth Brody wrote:

>"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:20:51AM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
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>>>   Thanks to all and a special thanks to Ted Dodd.
>>>   Here is what I ended up doing.
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>>>
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>>That's easier to read, certainly... but it's probably more efficient to
>>do it as a pipeline:
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>>cat $1 |
>>  tr -d '\000' |
>>  sed 's/~//g' |
>>  tr -d '\r' |
>>  tr -d '\n' |
>>  cat >/appl/servefx/shared/working/$1
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>Can't you combine all the "tr -d"s?
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>   tr -d '\000\r\n' | sed 's/~//g' >/appl/servefx/shared/working/$1
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