On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:05:58AM -0700, ben wrote: | On Friday 31 May 2002 11:01 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | > On 01-Jun-2002 Paul E Condon wrote: | > > What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before | > > each line feed (new line) character in a text file? | > | > in other words, make it look like a Windows text file? The sysutils | > package has two utilities -- 'fromdos' which removes ^M and 'todos' which | > adds them. | | useful information. i was torn about responding, reluctant to accommodate the | devil's formats,
It's a good format, when the output goes to a printer :-).
sed 's/$/\r/'
(double-check the \r expansion, otherwise insert a literal CR via ^V^M)
to be used as :
sed 's/$/\r/' < foo.text >> /dev/printers/0
(then when you get cups configured right you don't need to do that
anymore :-))
-D
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