Linefeed, also known as LF, is a character that controls the switching to the next line.
Linefeed, also known as LF, is a character that controls the switching to the next line.
Questions tagged [linefeed]
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LF will be replaced by CRLF in git - What is that and is it important?
git init
git add .
Gives the following warnings for many files:
The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in .
What's the difference between LF and CRLF? What should I…
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Git replacing LF with CRLF
On a Windows machine, I added some files using git add.
I got warnings saying:
LF will be replaced by CRLF
What are the ramifications of this conversion?
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Difference between CR LF, LF and CR line break types
I'd like to know the difference (with examples if possible) between
CR LF (Windows), LF (Unix) and CR (Macintosh) line break types.
eozzy
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Convert DOS/Windows line endings to Linux line endings in Vim
If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M.
How do I delete these characters all at once?
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Bash script – "/bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory"
I'm using this tutorial to learn bash scripts to automate a few
tasks for me.
I'm connecting to a server using putty.
The script, located in .../Documents/LOG, is:
#!/bin/bash
# My first script
echo "Hello World!"
And I executed the following for…
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What's the strategy for handling CRLF (carriage return, line feed) with Git?
I tried committing files with CRLF-ending lines, but it failed.
I spent a whole work day on my Windows computer trying different strategies and was almost drawn to stop trying to use Git and instead try Mercurial.
How to properly handle CRLF line…
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What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?
What is the meaning of the following control characters:
Carriage return
Line feed
Form feed
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What does the ^M character mean in Vim?
I keep getting the ^M character in my .vimrc and it breaks my
configuration.
Max
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How do I force Git to use LF instead of CR+LF under Windows?
I want to force Git to check out files under Windows using just LF not CR+LF.
I checked the two configuration options, but was not able to find the right combination of settings.
I want to convert all files to have LF line breaks and keep the LF in…
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How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF)
How can I programmatically (not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix newlines?
The dos2unix and unix2dos commands are not available on certain systems.
How can I emulate them with commands such as sed, awk, and tr?
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How to make IntelliJ IDEA insert a new line at every end of file?
How do I make IntelliJ IDEA insert a new line at every end of file,
so that GitHub doesn't complain for example?
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What is the difference between a "line feed" and a "carriage return"?
If there are two keywords then they must have their own meanings. So I want to know what makes them different and what their code is.
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^M at the end of every line in Vim
When I am editing source files using Vim and other editors, sometimes I get these ^M characters at the end of each line.
I think that it has something to do with editing a file on Windows and then on Linux.
How can I remove all of these…
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Removing carriage return and linefeed from the end of a string in C#
How do I remove the carriage return character (\r) and
the Unix newline character(\n) from the end of a string?
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Writing a new line to file in PHP (line feed)
My code:
$i = 0;
$file = fopen('ids.txt', 'w');
foreach ($gemList as $gem)
{
fwrite($file, $gem->getAttribute('id') . '\n');
$gemIDs[$i] = $gem->getAttribute('id');
$i++;
}
fclose($file);
For some reason, it's writing \n as a string, so…
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