Someone sent me files today that didn't have the right line feed type. (By "right" I mean what I expected. ;) A quick Google search turned up flip, a utility for Win/Max/Unix that lets you quickly convert the line feeds in a file. I was able to detect the line feeds she had used - and what I had used (really, I had no idea), and then convert her files to the proper format.
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Tip: Convert line feeds for files with Flip
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I get files like that every so often too. I figured out that if I opened them in Wordpad first that it could handle the line feeds. As soon as you save it, it saves it "how you would expect".
Dealing with network device configs that are stored with Unix (LF) line termination all the time, from a Windows box, I had to replace Notepad in Windows with something better... I use metapad ( http://www.liquidninja.com/... ) and Notepad2 ( http://www.flos-freeware.ch... ), depending on my mood. If I have to search and replace linefeeds and tabs, I always use metapad. Otherwise, I stick to Notepad2. These are Windows-only, though, so I'm not sure what to tell you for your Macbook world.
I use another product, but does the same thing, <a href="http://www.ultraedit.com/">UltraEdit from IDM</a>. When I open a *nix based file it asks me if I want to convert the linefeeds to Windows linefeeds. I don't know what I would do without UltraEdit's column editing and macro language are well !
I can vouch for both metaedit and ultraedit. I like metaedit so much I replaced notepad in my system files with it!