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RE: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at ftb dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:45:04 -0500
- Subject: RE: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jared Ingersoll
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:33 AM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data
>
>
> 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/da
> te +%Y%m%d`
>
> I was unable to find any reference to an automated resolution
> on google or
> cygwin FAQ.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Jared
See if 'dos2unix' from the 'cygutils' package does what you need.
-Jason
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