[ale] Turning CR into LF in text file

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Fulton Green wrote:
> 
> Stupid question, but what the hey:
> 
> Someone emailed me a PageMaker document that they had converted to HTML.
> The HTML attachment contains a bunch of carriage returns (^M) w/o the
> corresponding linefeeds (^J). How do I convert for UNIX-style consumption?

I think I'm going to put this in my sig. :)

tr -d '\015' < dos_formatted_file >  unix_formatted_file

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