Convert Dos to Unix

From: COMMAND LINE KUNG FU: PaulDotCom, Ed Skoudis, Hal Pomeranz, byte_bucket

Okay, so we’ll start simple here at Command Line Kung Fu. I think many of us run into the problem where we get those funny Windows characters in our files (^M). These are of course Windows line breaks. The simple solution (which should work on OS X and Linux):

I just had to do this on a file that someone shared with me. Next maybe we’ll look at how I chopped up and hacked that file with grep and cut :)