[lug] Beautify in vi

Deva Samartha blug-receive at mtbwr.net
Fri Mar 30 09:48:45 MST 2001


here are the unix<->dos aliases in /etc/profile to make it work in case the 
unix2dos and dos2unix command does not work off your commandline:

alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc'
alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1'

Samartha
(Co. went Chap 11 two days ago - need a job)

At 08:30 AM 3/30/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>For unix<->dos file transfers, make sure you switch to ascii mode before you
>transfer the file.
>This will eliminate all <cr><lf> issues.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carlos Hernández López [SMTP:chernanl at banxico.org.mx]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:07 PM
> > To:   lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:      Re: [lug] Beautify in vi
> >
> > Something similar happens when you transfer files from linux to win. Have
> > you tried with todos?
> >
> > todos < linuxfile.txt > dosfile.txt  and then transfer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > John Hernandez wrote:
> >
> > > He's right indeed.  Duh.
> > >
> > > So, that's <ctrl-v><ctrl-m> between the leaning toothpicks.  The literal
> > carret (^) in a regex means "at the beginning of a line,"
> > > which is not what you want.
> > >
> > > "Holshouser, David" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's slightly more difficult than that in my experience.
> > > > :%s/^v^m//g
> > > >
> > > > the ^v says don't look at my next keystroke, just trust me.
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: John Hernandez [SMTP:John.Hernandez at noaa.gov]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:45 PM
> > > > > To:   lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > > > Subject:      Re: [lug] Beautify in vi
> > > > >
> > > > > :%s/^M//g
> > > > >
> > > > > John Starkey wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have several files that I transfered from linux to FreeBSD. On
> > the
> > > > > > FreeBSD server the command chars are showing up. Mainly ^M. I saw
> > that
> > > > > > set: beautify is supposed to clean those out. But it isn't and I
> > found
> > > > > > one doc that says it only does so when reading into a file. I
> > tried
> > > > > > creating a new file and reading the old one into it. Still no
> > luck.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyone know of something I could do to strip these automatically?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > John
> > > > > >
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