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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove carriage returns from awk output Post 303000533 by prooney on Thursday 13th of July 2017 05:46:57 PM
Old 07-13-2017
Thank you for your solution and for advice on good practices in formatting posts.

At my installation, the utility is called dos2unix
 

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dos2unix(1)						      General Commands Manual						       dos2unix(1)

NAME
dos2unix - mtools utility to convert a DOS file to UNIX SYNOPSIS
dos2unix msdosfile OPTIONS
None OPERANDS
Name of the file to convert. DESCRIPTION
The dos2unix command converts a file from DOS format to UNIX format. The converted file replaces the original file. Subdirectory names that contain the '/' or '' separator are supported. If you use the '' separator or wildcards, you must enclose file names in quotes to protect them from the shell. The mcd command can be used to establish the device and the current working directory (relative to DOS), otherwise the default is A:. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Success. Failure. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of dos2unix: If set, this variable names the file that contains the name of the current mtools working directory as established by the mcd command. If this variable is not set, the file $HOME/.mcwd is used. FILES
Contains the name of the current mtools working directory as established by the mcd command. If this file does not exist, the default mtools working directory is A:. Executable file SEE ALSO
Commands: mcopy(1), mread(1), mtools(1) mtype(1), mwrite(1) dos2unix(1)
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