Converting Text Files
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How do I convert between Unix and Mac OS text files?
I’m mostly blogging this so I can remember where to find this stuff in the future. Thanks to lsald on ##mac (irc.freenode.net) for pointing it out.
If you open a file saved in TextEdit.app in a command-line text editor like vi, the line feed characters are all wrong. The file ends up as one huge line with a bunch of blue “^M” characters. The link above gives several command-line options for switching the offending characters out for Unix-style line feeds (and back again, if you were silly enough to want that).
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