On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Nathan Ziarek wrote:

> When downloading html files with CygWin, there are boxes in place of line
> breaks. I tried to select them to manually enter the line breaks with sed
> (sed 's/BOX_THING/LINEBREAK/' etc...) but it faults if not escaped, and
> does nothing if it is escaped. Any ideas on why this works like this / how
> I can fix it?

The "boxes" you see are probably CR characters (bytecode decimal 13).

To strip them off a downloaded file, I would use the 'tr' command similar to
this:

        curl [URL] | tr -d '\015' > dump

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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