was trying to remove the erroneous newline characters generated from Windows.
$cat -e file.xml
foo^M$
bar$
$
hello world1$
hello world2$
where there should be "foobar" without any newlines in between while all the newlines should be retained. I know within emacs we could do replacement of "^M^J" with 'RET', but I have a huge file that I don't want to open it but only wanted to use command line to convert it.
I tried dos2unix but it only removed the "^M" part, still rendering a broken word/sentence. Also tried tr -d '\r' and sed 's:^M$::g' or sed 's:^M$\n:\n:g', all didn't work. Anyone has an idea how to do it correctly?
I have replicated your example file as:
$ cat -e so.txt
foo^M$
bar$
line2$
line3$
You can use Perl in 'gulp' mode to do:
$ perl -0777 -pe 's/\r\n//g' so.txt
foobar
line2
line3
The problem with using most line oriented approaches is the \r\n is read as a line.
You can do:
$ perl -pe 's/\r\n//' /tmp/so.txt
foobar
line2
line3
as well...