Questions tagged [carriage-return]
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Can I indent pv's output (or of any command that outputs CRs)?
With pv, I can show a progress bar for anything I pipe through it, for example
echo 1234567890 | pv --size 10 >/dev/null
It prints a nice progress bar that gets updated whenever more data comes ...
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Where is the carriage return character?
I am confused about the carriage return character \r in Windows.
As everybody knows, Windows uses CRLF, i.e. \r\n, to terminate lines. So I thought, and tested it out. I opened Visual Studio Code, ...
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What is the meaning of the Carriage Return symbol in MSO Word?
What is the explanation (meaning) for the Carriage Return symbol shape in Microsoft Office Word?
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How to disable PuTTY to not sending CR at the end of the buffer? [duplicate]
When I send something through PuTTY serial port I receive what I've wrote and an extra character, including a CR. Is a problem because it hasn't happened until now that I've started to use this ...
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Extra Carriage Returns in Windows 10 - Update Issue?
This seems to me like a Windows update issue, but I cannot be sure.
I've started seeing extra carriage returns within text-format documents between lines. Opening these files on older machines works ...
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Carriage Return not getting printed in the end of line
I have got a PeopleSoft AppEngine program generating an output. All the lines in the output are expected to end with CRLF (CarriageReturn + LineFeed). But the program is not generating CR. Each line ...
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WSL - Trailing whitespaces being added to Bash code pasted into CMD WSL TTY per window size
I have a few Bash scripts on Windows and I sometimes copy them from Notepad++ into the WSL (CMD based) terminal emulator (TTY) to execute them.
The problem:
Trailing whitespaces (Green boxes in nano)...
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Clean carriage returns from a text file so that it looks like its printed to console
How do I convert carriage returns from a text file to the way they are displayed in console?
So for example, if a program prints the following lines to a console:
start\n
progress 01%\r
progress ...
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Does line-ending cause an issue for Local Folders in Thunderbird?
Can i simply copy/use the same files from a Windows computer onto a Linux computer or do they have to be converted in terms of line-ending?
I'm not asking in general, but for the Local Folders of ...
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Let Tee Handle Carriage-Returns Better
I've written a Java-console application that repeatedly prints its status to the console using carriage-returns (\r) at the end rather than line-feeds (\n) to keep the output on one screen. I also ...
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Unix, Shell Scripting
I am extracting data from an Oracle database and writing it into a flat file. I need the line delimiter to be FFLF. I am able to add the FF character but I am unable to remove the CR character. How ...
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Why is carriage return badly handled in redirections?
Let's have the following code (here in python):
print("something\r any")
When running it in a console, this correctly produce:
anything
(after printing something, the caret returns back to the ...
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Why sed regexp digit character class includes CR character if the last digit is at the end of the line?
I wanted to extract the Content-Length's size from an URL and output the URL + $size on the same line.
The data I worked with:
> curl -I -s http://yahoo.com
HTTP/1.1 301 Redirect
Date: Thu, 10 ...
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linux password contains carriage return (^M or 0x0D or \r): how to send password through ssh
I have a password for a user in linux that contains text and carriage return. I am trying to connect using ssh (with or without sshpass) but I noticed that ssh doesnt send carriage return in password, ...
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Delete "unidentified" carriage-return char from a text file
I have a text file containing a strange "carriage return" char.
If I open the file with Notepad I can't see the new line.
If I open the file with Wordpad I can see the new line.
I uploaded an ...
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What do you call a keyboard with a bar-shaped Enter key?
I'm a programmer, and a touch-typist, and so type best when the keys I use are where I expect them to be. Perhaps because I'm American, and do most of my work on Apple computers, I expect the keyboard ...
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Removing carriage returns from a mail merge field in Word
I have a mail merge field called, «ADDRESSLINE2»
My data is bad how do remove the carriage return from this merge field.
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Using \r in bash PS1
I was getting a little tired of my typeaheads in Bash from messing up the PS1. For instance, I would execute a command, like ls, and while it is running, start typing the next command, like echo, and ...
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Is there a Windows file format with <CR>-separated records (without <LF> characters)?
Today a file was extracted on a Windows system, Windows 7 to be exact, and ftp'd to a Unix system. The application that processes the file deliberately failed, because the file had one line in it, ...
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Removing carriage returns (^M) from certain lines without modifying every line
I have some fairly long C++ files, and git diff --check is reporting that there are a few carriage returns ^M on about 15 different lines. This is on a Windows 7 machine. After searching through ...
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Excel and tab delimited files, using Carriage Return and Line Feed
How do you introduce a CR and LF into a cell so when it is saved as a Tab delimited text file, the importing program will recognize the CR and LF?
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Paste from text editor to spreadsheet keeping CR in one cell
I have tried this in Notepad and Notepad++, but can't get it to work. What I want to do is close to the opposite of this post: How to copy multi-line text from Excel without quotes? I want to paste ...
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How to remove line breaks (or carriage returns) only from certain parts of a block of text?
Whenever I copy formatted text from a PDF file which is formatted to have line breaks (or carriage returns), I need to find a way to remove these line breaks without removing the paragraph format.
To ...
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Did Mac OS Lion switch to using line feeds (LF '\n') for line breaks instead of carriage returns (CR '\r')?
I switched to Lion a while back and just noticed that when I save a text file in TextEdit, it uses LF for line breaks. I looked around everywhere I could think of on my Lion computer and could not ...
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How can I replace all \r\n with \n using Komodo Edit
Somehow, some 40 files (mostly Python modules) in my project have \r\n (Windows style) as line endings. I'd like to change them to \n (Unix style) line endings, but Komodo Edit doesn't appear to ...
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Doing an SVN merge on a different OS from most users - does this cause issues?
I am working in a place that develops software on Windows. We use SVN for version control. I work much more quickly in a bash shell, and was asked to do a merge of a tag into a branch. I automatically ...
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copy excel cell copies carriage return also
I am copying individual cells from excel and pasting it into SQL. Each time I do it, carriage return is automatically added to copy.
Repro:
Enter 123 in any cell in excel 2007.Click on another ...
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How are \n and \r handled differently on Linux and Windows?
I think \n moves the needle down, and \r moves the needle to the beginning of a line (left align)? I'm not sure, though. So, if I'm wrong please correct me....
Anyway, I was told that Windows and ...
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Get External Data with carriage returns
I am trying to find a way to properly import a text file into excel that contains a carriage return using the Get External Data option.
The file has a text qualifier and is pipe delimited. Here is ...
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Terminal printing carriage return as ^M?? [linux telling me to stop coding?]
I was writing a script in vim, dropped my keyboard, and continued coding.
I didn't notice that my cursor changed from the normal _ type cursor, to a [] block. (as if i hit insert in a windows ...
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Ignore carriage return for a specific file with Git
I use multiple environments thanks to virtual machines, and my code directory is shared between them. I also like my code to have the native (host) line endings.
When I'm on a Windows host, I ...
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Join lines inside paragraphs in vim
Suppose you've typed a long document in vim with automatic line breaking on, so all the lines have been broken at, say, 79 characters. You may have even applied formatting to the whole document to ...
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Is there a Bash command to convert \r\n to \n?
Is there a Bash command to convert \r\n to \n?
When I upload my scripts from Windows to Linux, I need a utility like this to make things work.
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How to Launch a Program and Two Returns
I want to launch a program that then produces two dialog boxes I wish to just hit ENTER for. How do I do this? I have this so far but want it followed with RETURN twice.
w:: Run E:\Program Files\...
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Vim: show line feeds & carriage-return
How can I display line feeds and/or carriage-return characters in vi/vim?
I know that set list shows all the whitespace characters (?), it also replaces tabs \t etc (but that's not what I want). ...
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Komodo Edit: How to use Tabs and Carriage Returns in Find/Replace?
In NoteTab Pro, I could use tabs and returns in the find and replace dialogs by using ^t and ^p.
Now I have switched to Komodo Edit which is much more powerful, and I can't find any way to search for ...
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Why new lines at the end of files?
Why do some of the more technical apps require newlines at the end of files? I've read it has something to do with diffs, but shouldn't diff be able to figure the relative positions of things out on ...
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Convert CRLF's to line feeds on Linux
What's the best way to convert CRLF's to line feeds in files on Linux?
I've seen sed commands, but is there anything simpler?
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