Replace \n with \r\n in Unix file
When faced with this, I use a simple perl one-liner:
perl -pi -e 's/\n/\r\n/' filenamebecause sed behavior varies, and I know this works.
- What is the problem with getting
dos2unixonto the machine? - What is the platform you are working with?
- Do you have GNU
sedor regular non-GNUsed?
On Solaris, /usr/bin/sed requires:
sed 's/$/^M/'where I entered the '^M' by typing controlV controlM. The '$' matches at the end of the line, and replaces the end of line with the control-M. You can script that, too.
Mechanisms expecting sed to expand '\r' or '\\r' to control-M are going to be platform-specific, at best.
You don't need the -e option.
$ matches the endline character. This sed command will insert a \r character before the end of line:
sed 's/$/\r/' myfile