filtering with sed

[Jon Revie]

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.

--
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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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