[ubuntu-us-mn] grep for carriage returns?

Colin Harrington colin.harrington at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 18:21:37 UTC 2014


How about grep?

grep -r $'\r' *

\r is an escaped the carriage return (CR) character where as \n is the
newline/linefeed (LF) character

http://superuser.com/questions/194668/grep-to-find-files-that-contain-m-windows-carriage-return

Colin Harrington
colin.harrington at gmail.com


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Fred H Olson <fholson at cohousing.org> wrote:

> Is there a way to get grep or a similar tool to scan text files
> for carriage returns ( $0d) ?  I could not find a way.
>
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