I needed to convert a DOS file to UNIX line endings, on Windows with Activestate Perl 5.8.7. And all of a sudden, something we've all been doing for years without even thinking about it seems broken.

perl -i.bak -pe "s/\r//g" file

doesn't work anymore, nor do any usual or unusal variants of it.

What's up? I suspect the new perlio stuff to be the source of this problem, but I don't know how to solve this.

Have tried plenty of variants, but none worked. If I try to get rid of the \x0D, it stays in the file. If I remove \x0A, both \x0D and \x0A are removed.

Other (ever sillier) variants I tried:

perl -i.bak -pe "s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" file

perl -i.bak -pe "BEGIN{binmode STDOUT}; s/\x0D\x0A/\x0A/g" file

Even this stupid line (aggravated by Win32's stupid shell) doesn't work:

perl -i.bak -ne "BEGIN{binmode STDOUT}; chomp; print qq{$_\x0A};" file

Please, enlighten me. What happened to my loved Perl? Is doing simple things becoming difficult? Do I have to go back to good old Perl 5.4?

2005-10-13 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Perl line endings: something broken in 5.8?'

In reply to Perl line endings: something broken in ActiveState Perl 5.8? by rduke15

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