Greg Lopp on Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:15:02 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] dos2unix???


Charles Stack wrote:

> Our new hire just download a DOS based perl script onto our web server.
> Problem is, it is still in DOS form (i.e. an extra ^m on the end of each
> line).  Does anyone know of the program called dos2unix or how to remove
> these extra characters using a simple perl script?
>

The man pages say that "dos2unix -ascii <original_file> <converted_file>"
will do what you want.  Without the "-ascii" it only convert the DOS
extended character set to the ISO set.



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