RE: [TCLUG:1906] Shell Script Question -

[Brad DeJong <1796@mn3.lawson.lawson.com>]

I'm sitting here banging my head about tr, but for script usage, you can   
easily use the perl functionality to mimic tr.  I may have hosed up   
something, but you get the idea.  It's been a while since I've done   
extensive perl.

*** dos2unix.pl ***************
#!/usr/bin/perl

while ($line = <STDIN>) {
    $line =~ tr/\r//;
    print $line;
}
*******************************

% cat myfile.dos | dos2unix.pl > newfile.unix

Regular tr looks something like this:

% tr ab ba < infile > outfile

changes infile contents of "bad" to outfile contents of "abd".  I can't   
remember how to do control characters though.

Luke Francl wrote:

...

But what I would like to do is write a shell script to remove the ^M
from every file in a directory. Brad says tr can be used for this, but I
have no experience with this tool...what parameters would I need to give
it in order to make this work?