DOS to UNIX using tr
April 3rd, 2009 by greg
All too frequently I need to convert text files with DOS line endings to UNIX line endings. It’s easy to do using tr but I can never remember the syntax. The following strips the carriage returns (\r) and end-of-file characters (^z) from the file:
$ tr -d '\15\32' < dosfile.txt > unixfile.txt
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