From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Date: 2001-12-15T15:34:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28602] Re: help with ^M (line endings ) removing

On Saturday 15 December 2001 18:50, you wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:23, Dinakar Desai wrote:
> >
> > cat windows_file.txt | tr -d "\015" > unix_file.txt
> >
> > Is the traditional unix one-liner for this.
>
> YAUUOC - yet another useless use of cat :-)

That is the noise it made when I trod on its tail by mistake.
And what I said when it sunk its claws into me is unprintable in these polite 
surroundings.

You are correct of course.

Sincerely etc.

Christopher Sawtell