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authorJoseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1999-01-19 03:05:44 +0000
committerJoseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>1999-01-19 03:05:44 +0000
commitc5ab5a1e9bc901386593eb2e11580fc120fa77f9 (patch)
treed4333d856455d0d5daa9172302fda73cd9293179
parenteb99f9619ef76bb105a8d698fb210354da235505 (diff)
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-<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.13 1999-01-12 00:49:15 wosch Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.14 1999-01-19 03:05:44 jkoshy Exp $ -->
<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
<sect>
@@ -835,6 +835,17 @@ perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file ...
<p>file is the file(s) to process. The modification is done in-place,
with the original file stored with a .bak extension.
+ <p>Alternatively you can use the <url url="/cgi/man.cgi?tr"
+ name="tr(1)"> command:
+
+<verb>
+tr -d '\r' &lt; dos-text-file &gt; unix-file
+</verb>
+
+ <p>dos-text-file is the file containing DOS text while
+ unix-file will contain the converted output. This can
+ be quite a bit faster than using perl.
+
<sect1>
<heading>How do I kill processes by name?</heading>