[gentoo-user] Re: search and replace "carriage return"

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-02-03, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2014 01:14, Joseph wrote:
>> I have a text file.  How do I search and replace "carriage return"?
>>
>
>
> That is a horrible one to solve :-)
>
> All the usual tools (grep, sed, tr) are line oriented so they will take
> one line and replace the CR at the end with something else plus a CR!

No they won't.  EOL in Unix is linefeed.  CR is treated as a normal
character by grep sed tr and so on.

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