Fixing Fixed-Width Text Files

To remove the end line characters in a text file that has every line truncated at 80 chars…

perl -pi -e ‘s/(….+)\r\n/$1 /’ filename.txt
perl -pi -e ‘s/\n/\n\n/’ filename.txt

Then open in Write –> copy and paste into word.

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Published:
07.18.07 / 9am
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