Re: Problem with sed converting convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format (sed version 3.02+))

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:43:09 -0800 (PST), Aachen Panoramen
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I was using the following sed commands
> 
> s/.$//;
> s/^M$//;
> 
> 
> to replace DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format in the following DOS text
> file (without --): --
> 
> Hello
> World
> Hello
> sed
> 
> --
> 
> With sed version 3.02 all was fine.
> Yesterday I updated to version 4.21 and this conversion doesn't work any
> more.
> 
> I tried other version too and found that it doesn't work any more since
> version 3.02.80.
> 
> The result of sed version 4.09 - 4.21 is:
> --
> 
> Hell
> Worl
> Hell
> se
> --
> 
> 
> The result of 3.02.80 and 4.06 is an empty file.

Perhaps try

s/\r$//

There are also dedicated utilities to do that (d2u, dos2unix).


-- 
D.