[Cialug] Windows End-Of-Line?
Morris Dovey
mrdovey at iedu.com
Wed May 5 08:24:44 CDT 2010
On 5/5/2010 8:09 AM, Todd Walton wrote:
> When I write a bunch of text to a file and then open that file with
> Windows's Notepad program, it runs it all together in one line with
> boxes where the end-of-lines should be. Is there a sed line I could
> run the text through to make it Windows-friendly?
Perhaps (I don't know/use sed).
Windows expects the newline character to be preceeded by a carriage
return, so what you want to do is a global replacement
\n -> \r\n
HTH
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