I get these log files in my work that are supposed to be text files. Supposed to be. For some bizarre reason the CRs are there (represented by ^M) while the linefeed character seems to be missing. So doing this:
sed 's/^M//g' < inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
does NOT work.
After much searching and experimenting, this works:
perl -ne ' s/:/\n/g; print ' inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
I have yet to find a sed version that works. Stay tuned.
PS. Check out the wikipedia entry on this for other ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
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Looking at this again, I suspect the proper solution be something like:
sed 's/^M/\r/g < inputfile.txt > outputfile.txt
or whatever the code is for carriage return. I think it should be \r and not \n for Nix type OSes.
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