How to remove invisible character?
Josef Lowder
joe at actionline.com
Thu Apr 10 06:35:30 MST 2008
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Thanks to all. I used dos2unix and that worked fine,
but I was also glad to learn about the 'cat -vet' option
and the idea of using sed.
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On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, James Mcphee wrote
> So you have a carriage {CR}{LF} instead of just {LF}. That's the windows
return characters instead of just the unix one. (Mac uses just the {CR}).
>
> You can crush that in a couple ways. The dos2unix utility works fine. You
could also use sed or vi to snip it. It shows up as a ^M if you cat -vet or
do a :set list in vi.
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