[Cialug] Windows End-Of-Line?

Dave Hala Jr dave at 58ghz.net
Wed May 5 08:33:09 CDT 2010


I use wordpad a lot without issue when working with text files back and
worth between windows and linux.


On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 08:28 -0500, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> 
> IIRC, notepad requires \r\n, but wordpad is fine with just \n
> 
> or, obligatory $GetARealTextEditor :) (gvim, notepad++, etc)
> 
> -barry
> 
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