[BNM] Batch removal of carriage returns

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On 7/12/07, Ben Lobo <ben.lobo at hobointernet.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a linux utility that'll find any files with a
> specific extension in a directory (and its subdirectories) and remove
> any Windows carriage return characters (CR) from those files?

find . -name *\.txt -exec sed -i \.bak 's/\r//' {} \;

find in the current directory (.) and any below it, any files with an
extension of .txt, execute the sed command which replaces carriage
return (\r) with nothing, leave a copy of the original file  with an
extension of .bak

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