Well, if you want to do it at the command line (assuming you have perl installed), you can do: perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\r//g' filename which will do the removing of all ^M characers, as well as save a backup file with the same name with a .bak at the end. -- Jon Revie revie@home.com http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~revie "Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the camp- fire and nobody got scared." - Jack Handey On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Don Harrop wrote: > I've got an output file where each line ends with a ^M. I'm trying to get > sed to filter out the ^M but cat doesn't print it. I need to encorporate > the solution into a script file so search and replace with a text editor > wont do the trick either.. Any ideas? > > Don > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >