Bash Script to Cleanup File

This bash script will do three things: 1. Remove Carriage Return (\r) 2. Replace tab character with four spaces (configure as you want) 3. Add a trailing line feed to the file

#!/bin/bash

platform='unknown'
unamestr=`uname`
if [[ "$unamestr" == 'Darwin' ]]; then
   platform='MAC'
elif [[ "$unamestr" == *CYGWIN* ]]; then
   platform='WIN'
elif [[ "$unamestr" == "Linux" ]]; then
   platform='LINUX'
fi

file=$1

# Remove \r
tr -d '\r' < $file > $file.new
rm $file
mv $file.new $file

# replace \t with space
tr '\t' '    ' < $file > $file.new
rm $file
mv $file.new $file

if [[ $platform == 'MAC' ]]; then
  # On Mac, add trailing \n
  sed -i '' -e '$a\' $file
else
  sed -i -e '$a\' file
fi

Cygwin and Batch files

The two hardly mix, but sometimes they must. To invoke a batch file from cygwin run:

cmd /c mybatchfile.bat

And it's probably worth mentioning to invoke a batch file from a batch file use:

call mybatchfile.bat

jargrep Bash Script

When I work with Java it can be handy to grep for a string in a JAR, so I have created an executable script called "jargrep".

#!/bin/bash
# Greps a jar file for a string.


if [ $1 ] ; then
  find . -name "*.jar" -a -exec bash -c "jar tvf {} | grep $1" \; -print
else
  echo "Usage: jargrep [string]"
  echo "  Example: jargrep \"string to grep for\""
fi

Create a text file called jargrep, copy the contents above, then run "chmod +x jargrep" to make it executable.