[CentOS] to <cr> or not

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have had some success (read no noticed problems), moving some text 
> conf files from a Win <cr,lf> format to Linux and have them 
> work.  For example my zone files, moving them from my Win DNS server.
> 
> But what about other files?  I guess I want to know this more to 
> prevent a mistake from crashing things, as I do have GEDIT.
> 
> If I were to build an anaconda-ks.cfg in notepad, write it to a 
> floppy then did a linux ks=floppy, would it work?

I'm not sure there is a generic answer.  Some things ignore
the CR's, some don't.  It's always a good idea to remove
them.  On Windows you can edit in wordpad instead of notepad and
it will put them back.  If you edit in vim (either windows
or Linux versions) you can write either way with the:
:set fileformat 
option.

> I have search the archives and google, but either I am missing the 
> right search words, or something.

In the old days with real vi, you would:
:%s/^v^m//
to get rid of them, but vim doesn't like that.

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  Les Mikesell
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