changing lf-only to crlf

Here's a little quickie I've found useful (I'm loving awk!).

I get files that have unix style linefeed-only and I can't edit them in
notepad.

After learning about awk, I just:

gawk "{print $0}" <infile.txt >outfile.txt

and it works like a champ!

Rufus

"Rufus V. Smith" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> Here's a little quickie I've found useful (I'm loving awk!).
>
> I get files that have unix style linefeed-only and I can't edit them in
> notepad.
>
> After learning about awk, I just:
>
> gawk "{print $0}" <infile.txt >outfile.txt

Alternatively, you can use the Shortest Program Ever:
gawk 1 infile.txt >outfile.txt
(Just as the empty pattern in your program always matches, the empty
action means "print $0".)

Just for the record.
Ulrich
--
"Stocks of combustible gases, such as carbon dioxide and helium, are
helping to fuel the flames making the blaze highly volatile."
-- Heard on MSNBC by RT, related in the sdm.
also at http://www.msnbc.com/news/954457.asp

Ulrich M. Schwarz <brotherelf@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Rufus V. Smith" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
> 
>
> Alternatively, you can use the Shortest Program Ever:
> gawk 1 infile.txt >outfile.txt
> (Just as the empty pattern in your program always matches, the empty
> action means "print $0".)

Hmm.
The null program should be a valid awk program shouldn't it?
Never do nothing.

(gawk at least doesn't support it, which bothers me not at all)

In article <415dc52f$0$69739$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
Ian Stirling  <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
...
>The null program should be a valid awk program shouldn't it?
>Never do nothing.
>
>(gawk at least doesn't support it, which bothers me not at all)

"man gawk" contains this text:

Either the pattern may be missing, or the action may be  missing,  but,  of
course, not both.

I find no such language in "man awk" (on Solaris).  But it is pretty
obvious, else you couldn't have blank lines in your program...

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:18:06 -0400, Rufus V. Smith wrote:
> Here's a little quickie I've found useful (I'm loving awk!).
>
> I get files that have unix style linefeed-only and I can't edit them in
> notepad.

While I like awk and *nix tools, I would never have thought of that. I
used to open any "questionable" files with wordpad, which I found could
read *nix files, and after editing could store them in Windoze format(s).

--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.

Kenny McCormack <gazelle@yin.interaccess.com> wrote:
> In article <415dc52f$0$69739$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
> Ian Stirling  <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> ... 
>
> "man gawk" contains this text:
>
> Either the pattern may be missing, or the action may be  missing,  but,  o
f
> course, not both.
>
> I find no such language in "man awk" (on Solaris).  But it is pretty
> obvious, else you couldn't have blank lines in your program...

It would be a bit of computational overhead, but I can't see any
side-effects.

Thanks for pointing me at that bit of the manual, I somehow missed
it when scanning through.

On 01 Oct 2004 20:59:28 GMT in comp.lang.awk, Ian Stirling
<root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Ulrich M. Schwarz <brotherelf@gmx.net> wrote: 
>
>Hmm.
>The null program should be a valid awk program shouldn't it?
>Never do nothing.
>
>(gawk at least doesn't support it, which bothers me not at all)

gawk '' <anything or nothing>

just exits quietly (V3.1.1).

--
Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis 	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Brian.Inglis@CSi.com  	(Brian[dot]Inglis{at}SystematicSW[dot]a
b[dot]ca)
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In article <415dc52f$0$69739$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
Ian Stirling  <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> wrote:

% The null program should be a valid awk program shouldn't it?
% Never do nothing.

Leaving aside the question of its validity as an awk program,
although 0 characters is technically shorter than 1 character,
the null program does require more typing, at least using my
tool set.
--

Patrick TJ McPhee
East York  Canada
ptjm@interlog.com

"Rufus V. Smith" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:

> Here's a little quickie I've found useful (I'm loving awk!).
>
> I get files that have unix style linefeed-only and I can't edit them in
> notepad.
>
> After learning about awk, I just:
>
> gawk "{print $0}" <infile.txt >outfile.txt

Alternatively, you can use the Shortest Program Ever:
gawk 1 infile.txt >outfile.txt
(Just as the empty pattern in your program always matches, the empty
action means "print $0".)

Just for the record.
Ulrich
--
"Stocks of combustible gases, such as carbon dioxide and helium, are
helping to fuel the flames making the blaze highly volatile."
-- Heard on MSNBC by RT, related in the sdm.
also at http://www.msnbc.com/news/954457.asp

Ulrich M. Schwarz <brotherelf@gmx.net> wrote:
> "Rufus V. Smith" <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
> 
>
> Alternatively, you can use the Shortest Program Ever:
> gawk 1 infile.txt >outfile.txt
> (Just as the empty pattern in your program always matches, the empty
> action means "print $0".)

Hmm.
The null program should be a valid awk program shouldn't it?
Never do nothing.

(gawk at least doesn't support it, which bothers me not at all)