C:\temp>cat -A foo.txt foo$ bar$ baz$ C:\temp>perl -le "chomp(@a=<>);print for map qq|<$_>|, @a" foo.txt | cat -A ^M$ ^M$ ^M$ #### tilde:~ [11:19:27]$ cat -A foo.txt foo^M$ bar^M$ baz^M$ tilde:~ [11:19:47]$ perl -le 'chomp(@a=<>);print for map qq|<$_>|, @a' foo.txt | cat -A $ $ $