On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:
> What we have is data coming out of some files in proc, this data changes
> constantly depending on the data links and what the timers are doing. What
> we are doing is in one case when a certain command is called from the
> switch interface, capturing a snapshot of that data and dumping it to the
> requesiting user. In some cases we need to see it in dos format and in others
> with just a CR on the end.
Mac format? Really?
In a script I'd do it like so:
LINE_STYLE=DOS # Mac, DOS, or Linux
# set this differently for each user
case $LINE_STYLE in
Mac)
FIXER="tr '\\n' '\\r' ;;
Linux)
FIXER=cat ;;
DOS)
FIXER=unix2dos
esac
$FIXER < /proc/whatever > userfile
# or just dump to stdout if that's what you want
# "$FIXER <" only works if $FIXER is always a single command
> I thought we only needed to see the dos format
> for those people who are using windows, but turns out there are times when
> we need to see the line ended with a CR, and it appears that good old Linux
> pretty well handles whatever is tossed at it, too bad some others do not...
Well, vim does. Mac-style files get each line overprinted on a console
with "cat" so you only see the last line there.
> I will test more of this until I get the answer I am looking for, thanks
> for the work with the dos format, that is working great, now just to clear
> up the last one with the NL ending in a CR only... Then I will have the
> whole mess covered.
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