GNU bug report logs - #20474
tr command

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Joseph Piette <Joe.Piette <at> cantire.com>

Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:47:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Erik Auerswald <auerswal <at> unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20474: tr command
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 14:32:38 +0200

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:10:52AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/30/2015 10:31 AM, Joseph Piette wrote:
> > When transferring files from the Windows environment to the Linux environment we execute a script to remove the \cr characters. The script performs a simple
> > 
> > tr -d '\r'  < input  > output
> > [...]
> 
> Another thing to try: the 'dos2unix' command exists in many Linux
> distros as a way to automate the work without having to figure out the
> commands to run yourself.

Many other Linux distros provide the 'recode' command instead.

Erik
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