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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:39:17 -0400
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From: Patrick Monnerat; Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:00 AM
> I'm trying to convert a \r\n line-ending file to unix style, but this
> file has some lines with their last character being \r (i.e.: the
> sequence of binary bytes is ...\r\r\n...)
> 
> Using dos2unix to convert it strips both \r, resulting in a byte
> sequence ...\n...
> 
> This seems to me a bug. I need the trailing \r in the file as a normal
> character, not being part of the line ending.

For the record, shouldn't the following work?

sed -i -e 's/\r$//' file1, file2, ...

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