My favorite switch is -l, and this is why:
perl -i.bak -ple 'BEGIN{$/="\n"}'
gets you from Unix to DOS (or should) and changing "\n" to "\r\n" gets you back.

Update: assuming you're always converting to the system you run the command on, that is--the -l flag gives you native line-endings.

Though of course if you're in MSDOS, you presumably need to fiddle with the quotes some.


If God had meant us to fly, he would *never* have give us the railroads.
    --Michael Flanders

In reply to Re: Re: newlines for windows from unix by ChemBoy
in thread newlines for windows from unix by Anonymous Monk

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