Re: BSD-awk print() Behavior

In reply to: Polytropon : "Re: BSD-awk print() Behavior"
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From: Sysadmin Lists <sysadmin.lists_at_mailfence.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:52:36 UTC

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> From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
> Date: Feb 22, 2023, 7:56:36 AM
> To: Sysadmin Lists <sysadmin.lists@mailfence.com>
> Cc: Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: BSD-awk print() Behavior
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> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:06:04 +0100 (CET), Sysadmin Lists wrote:
> > (Now that I think of it, the carriage-returns are inserted by the web browser 
> > of course.)
> 
> If you encounter more unneeded CRs, using ... | tr -d '\n' | ...
> in your preprocessing step is very easy _and_ helpful. :-)
> 
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> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
> 

The `strings' program worked, too.

$ awk '{ print $0 " abc " }'  <(strings file_1) <(strings file_2)
https://github.com/ abc 
https://github.com/ abc 
https://github.com/ abc 
https://github.com/ abc 

That's what got me to search for the `cat' flag to display chars vim was hiding.

Linux has a program called dos2unix, but that's a bit overkill.


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