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
>
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