[clug] Circumflex

Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Mon Aug 21 03:52:21 UTC 2017


Cheers, Scott:

> You can test for dos text files in a directory with:-
> grep -lU $'\x0D' *
> 
> (which matches on the hex for CRLF)

That worked.

> or grep a file for a line that end with a carriage return:-
> [[ $(grep -c $'\r$' crlf.txt) -gt 0 ]] && echo dos

In bash, that worked. Though I couldn't translate for the fish shell, 
which yielded "illegal command" error.
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