A new addition to my .bashrc, a bash function that will swap Macintosh newlines for UNIX ones: function mac2unix() { sed 's/\r/\n/gi' } To use it, pipe it as so:

This will convert Macintosh newlines from files that Mac friends forgot to upload in ASCII mode. If this is not done, programs will ignore the Macintosh newlines and files will have no newlines, which goes without saying is very annoying.