Re: [aclug-L] question

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sed is a simpler solution.



On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Wesley Simon wrote:

> Does anyone know the syntax for a fancy tr command that I can put into a
> makefile so that it will strip the carriage return (^M) off each .c and
> .h file in a directory?  I used to have such a makefile, but I seem to
> have lost it during my last install.  If not, does anyone know a simple
> way of doing it?  I have about 30 files in a single directory.  I did
> several via command-line with "mv file.txt file.bak; tr -d '\r' <
> file.bak > file.txt", but that got a little tedious.  I'm doing some
> porting of some C programs and plan on doing this quite regularly, so I
> don't want to manually do it each time.  Any suggestions would be
> helpful.  I'm sure a 2 or 3 line perl script would do it too, but I'm
> not that familiar with perl at this point.  I would rather spend time
> working on the actual C code.
> 
> 
> Something else that has been on my mind:
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone's position on cracks, hacks and warez, but I
> believe that in order to mature, the group should adopt some
> zero-tolerance attitudes of such behavior.  I used to think it was cool,
> but then one day I was browsing the web and found something I wrote. 
> Some guy had taken every reference to me off it and made it his own.  He
> was taking credit for something that I spent precious time creating.  It
> doesn't feel very good when you discover that someone has stolen your
> pet project.  Even though it was freeware, I didn't like it.  People
> just like you and I are trying to help the Linux community along.  I
> believe that it would be undermining the Linux movement to bite the hand
> that feeds us, even if it is large companies like Corel or small
> companies like 4 front technologies.  As a group we can't stop it, but
> we can prevent the meeting and the mailing list from participating.
> 
> Wes
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