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Re: edtf of httpd.conf corrupting file

Hello Richard,

Am 03.04.2023 um 02:54 schrieb Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

FWIW - EDTF works just fine as do the PASE based editors.

In both cases I have found issues with CR/LF messing things up, especially with bash scripts not being executable with CR/LF on the shebang line.

This got resolved once I discovered the dos2unix command.

Dos2unix fixes up files and converts to UNIX format.

Wish I had known about this when I started editing IFS files that cared about LF vs CR/LF.

Expanding on that…

Without the need for installing dos2unix, just with the given basic UNIX tools, you can strip CRs with tr:

cat crlf-text.txt |tr -d '\r' > lf-text.txt

For the proponents of vim: You can switch between DOS and UNIX style line endings with :set (no)textmode. The Change will be applied after a write (:w).

textmode: CRLF,
notextmode: LF.

:wq! PoC


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