Converting from Mac to Unix line endings

This is more a post for me than anyone else, but I thought I’d share anyway.

In our team we have a mixture of Linux and Mac users, and we are constantly editing the same files. One of the most irritating things is when a file is saved with Mac line endings instead of Unix line endings (displaying as ^M in Emacs). This happens very rarely, but on the occasion it does I can quickly convert back using the following commands on my Linux box:

$ tr '\r' '\n' < file-in-question.txt > tmp.file
$ mv tmp.file file-in-question.txt

Works perfectly

If you want to find more about the tr (Translate) program, visit the man page.

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