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Old 10-17-2013
Removing trailing x'0A' characters.
I am trying to remove trailing carriage return (x'0a') from a source program. What is a good way to do this for the whole file?

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Old 10-17-2013
"ox0a" is a linefeed, actually, not a carriage return.

You can remove it with tr -d '\n'

Assuming that's what you want. It's a common problem to remove ^M characters from files transferred from Windows. You can do that with:
Code:
tr -d '\r'

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Old 10-17-2013
What purpose for? source files are text, and text files need line feed chars (Note: 0x0A is line feed, not carriage return).
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Old 10-17-2013
dos2unix, if it's available.

EDIT: And assuming you actually mean carriage returns and not linefeeds...
Last edited by CarloM; 10-17-2013 at 02:15 PM.. Reason: Lack of reading ability...
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Old 10-19-2013
Thank you, I got the file fixed.
 
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