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Convert CRLF’s to line feeds on Linux

What’s the best way to convert CRLF‘s to line feeds in files on Linux?

I’ve seen sed commands, but is there anything simpler?

Answer [by Ryan Thompson]: Convert CRLF’s to line feeds on Linux

Use dos2unix.

dos2unix – DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...] Options: [-hkqV] [help]…

How to: What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What is the meaning of the following control characters:

Carriage return

Line feed

Form feed

Answer: What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

Have a look at Wikipedia:

Systems based on ASCII or a compatible character set use either LF (Line feed, ‘\n’, 0x0A, 10 in decimal) or CR (Carriage return, ‘\r’, 0x0D, 13 in decimal)…

How to: Difference between \n and \r?

Difference between \n and \r?

Whats the difference between \n (newline) and \r (carriage return)?

Edited to add: All the answers are fairly predictable, but I’d be interested to know if there are any PRACTICAL differences between \n and \r. Are there places where one should be used over the other?

Answer: Difference between \n and \r?

\r is char code 13 and \n is char code 10

windows use \r\n,…