Stripping Carriage Return / Line Feed from text file

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:01:18PM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	#@(#)cr+-   JPRadley v 1.1
> 	#@(#)adds CRs if not present, strips them if present
> 	#@(#)if you just cat this file, you miss its essence, so instead
> 	#@(#)cat -v this file, so as to see two actual ^M that it contains
> 	sed '
> 	s-^M--g
> 	t
> 	s+$+^M+
> 	t
> 	'

I wandered into this late, but let me applaude the conceit of using -
and + characters as the sed separators; that's quite amusing.

Cheers,
-- jra
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