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How do I convert a file in DOS format to UNIX format. ( Remove CRLF line terminators )

All these are from the sed one-liners page

sed 's/.$//' dosfile              # assumes that all lines end with CR/LF
sed 's/^M$//' dosfile             # in bash/tcsh, press Ctrl-V then Ctrl-M
sed 's/\x0D$//' dosfile            

Some distributions have dos2unix command which can do this. In vim, you can use :set fileformat=unix