Quoting Jima <jima at gimp.damnation.net>: > Quoting Thomas Eibner: > > perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/' file Even though this won't work for the ftp problem, it is a valuable perl one-liner that I have used more times than I can count. (No jokes please) It's especially useful for changing URLs in a bunch of html docs. Include the i.bak option to backup the file first. (just to be safe) For a list of some other useful one-liners: http://www.unixguide.net/unix/perl_oneliners.shtml