How to add carriage returns

Question

Greetings all
I often download lyrics to songs and often they copy into MS Word without hard carriage returns-so they look as one huge paragraph.
I think the solution is that I must first find out what escape characters are in there, then search and replace with maybe 0A, 0D hex, or something like this.
Can you tell me first, how to view the actual characters in Terminal or any other program, then how to search and replace.
can this be done in Text Edit, or Ms Word?
Thanks much.

Answer 1

Check out the thread at
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031018164326986
Or: from http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt :
Using the Unix stream editor sed (type man sed in Terminal for usage):
# IN UNIX ENVIRONMENT: convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format.
sed 's/.$//' # assumes that all lines end with CR/LF
sed 's/^M$//' # in bash/tcsh, press Ctrl-V then Ctrl-M
sed 's/\x0D$//' # works on ssed, gsed 3.02.80 or higher
# IN UNIX ENVIRONMENT: convert Unix newlines (LF) to DOS format.
sed "s/$/`echo -e \\\r`/" # command line under ksh
sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/" # command line under bash
sed "s/$/`echo \\\r`/" # command line under zsh
sed 's/$/\r/' # gsed 3.02.80 or higher
# IN DOS ENVIRONMENT: convert Unix newlines (LF) to DOS format.
sed "s/$//" # method 1
sed -n p # method 2
# IN DOS ENVIRONMENT: convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format.
# Can only be done with UnxUtils sed, version 4.0.7 or higher. The
# UnxUtils version can be identified by the custom "--text" switch
# which appears when you use the "--help" switch. Otherwise, changing
# DOS newlines to Unix newlines cannot be done with sed in a DOS
# environment. Use "tr" instead.
sed "s/\r//" infile >outfile # UnxUtils sed v4.0.7 or higher
tr -d \r <infile >outfile # GNU tr version 1.22 or higher