RE: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Jared,

"od -c" is your friend.
	Igor

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> I think tr is going to solve it, but now I have to figure out just what
> character this is.
>
> thanks,
> jared
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe [mailto:jdenicola at maxwellsystems dot com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:18 AM
>
> Try piping to:   tr -d '\r'
>
> "Jared Ingersoll" <jared at cswv dot com> wrote...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm currently using cygwin (updated yesterday) with a WIN2K resource kit
> > utility to dump logs from event viewer into a comma delimited file. One
> > behavior that I have noticed (and occasionally notice with cygwin in
> > general) is that within the data, there are what I believe to be carriage
> > returns (show up in an excel spreadsheet as a square character). This data
> > will eventually end up in an Oracle database, so these characters are
> > undesirable. I was wondering if there is a way (outside of manually editing
> > the file, perhaps with sed or awk) to remove these characters?
> >
> > Here's the command that's producing them in the bash shell:
> >
> > /cygdrive/d/EventAudit/dumpel.exe -d 1 -s MyPC -l system -t -c |
> > /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/awk '{print "MyPC" "," "system" "," $0}' >>
> > /cygdrive/d/EventAudit/serverevents.`/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/date +%Y%m%d`
> >
> > I was unable to find any reference to an automated resolution on google or
> > cygwin FAQ.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> > Jared

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