Faster CR -> LF Macro?

[Greg Edwards]

Hi,
I do this sort of stuff in Perl, it's very robust about line-ending hacking.
Try the script below.

Greg.

#!/bin/bash

# Translate any of LF, CR, CRLF to LF.

if [ "$1" == "" ] ; then
   echo "Usage: `basename $0` filename"
   exit 1
fi

for F in $*
do
  echo Converting $F
  cat $F | perl -p -e 's/(\r|\n|\r\n)/\n/g' > $F.crlf
  mv $F.crlf $F
done


On 19/03/2008, Aaron Hsu <arcfide at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Do any of you have a faster way of doing a CR->LF conversion?
>
> Right now I am using a macro. I want to be able to do this in one shot
> easily, because I do this a lot. Right now I have:
>
>         pos = search("\r", 0, "regex")
>         while (pos  >= 0) {
>           replace_range(pos, $search_end, "\n")
>           pos = search("\r", 0, "regex")
>         }
>
> This is a bit slow because it is running through a macro, so I was
> thinking about making it a script, but I don't know if that would be
> better or not. :-/ I mean, it's nice to have the macro going without
> having to have an external program to run it through.
>
> Just wondering.
>
>
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