How to remove carriage returns in a bunch of perl scripts?

rebel · 04-08-2005, 12:10 AM

Hello,

What is the fastest way to remove MS-DOS carriage return in a bunch of perl scripts?

Alternatively, is it possible to make Perl scripts executable even if it contains MS-DOS carriage return?

Many thanks in advance.

* For Reference: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=310953

herbc · 04-08-2005, 12:51 AM

man fromdos

rebel · 04-08-2005, 10:37 AM

Thanks. And where do I get "fromdos"?

herbc · 04-08-2005, 07:35 PM

came with my install of Slackware 10.0. if 'man fromdos' worked it should be available. If not, check out

http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/

cowboy_jake · 04-12-2005, 02:27 PM

Are you just trying to get rid of the ^M characters? If so, try one of these...

dos2unix [filename]
cat filename.dos | tr -d '\015' > filename.unix
col -bx < filename.dos > filename.unix

-Jake