Converting DOS text files

[John R. Levine]

In article <1477 at pai.UUCP> erc at pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
>The problem is this: when you use a DOS-based copy command to copy a text
>file onto your system (from a PC floppy, say), that DOS text file
>is full of CR/LFs (instead of the UNIX line feed) and has a trailing
>Ctrl-Z.  [172 line program follows]

Here's a six-line shell script that does the same thing.  I call it uncr.

#!/bin/sh
# Get rid of carriage returns in files
# Dedicated to the public domain, do anything with it you want. -jrl

for i
do
	echo $i:
	qfile=`dirname $i`/QQ`basename $i`
	mv $i $qfile && tr -d \\015\\032 <$qfile >$i && rm $qfile
done

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