sorry, that should be

do shell script "tr '\\r' '\\n' <"

since AS uses the backslash too.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Mark J. Reed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you're using do shell script, you can pipe the script through tr
> before piping it to awk or cut or whatever.
>
> do shell script "tr '\r' '\n' <" & quoted form of posix path of myFile
> & " | awk ..."
>
> (and leave off the quoted form of posix path of myfile at the end of
> the awk command).  That will do the conversion one line at a time,
> without having to read the whole file into memory at once.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I think I tracked it down, thanks Mark.
>>
>> Here's where the error occurs:
>>
>> set fileText to read thisFile
>> tell application "TextCommands" to set fileText to convert linebreaks
>> fileText to Unix format
>>
>>  Because the file is so large, the "fileText" variable is empty, and when
>> the script is ready to write the converted text back to the file it
>> generates a trapped error that leaves the original file untouched.
>>
>> So I think what I really need to is a way to convert line breaks on a huge
>> file without having to read it into memory.
>>
>>
>>
>> ES
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:41am, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>
>>> Ed: was this a repeat from a different thread?  Did you make sure the
>>> file has UNIX line endings?
>>
>
>
>
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