[Techtalk] get rid of "^M" in a file

[Maria McKinley]

I've never really thought about this before.  How are carriage returns
marked in linux text files?  How would you substitute a ^M for a
carriage return that more or cat would recognize?

cheers,
maria

MMP - Barb Fox wrote:
> Although sometimes I'll use sed to do the substitution (as others have 
> suggested), this particular case is probably even easier with the tr 
> (translate) command.  It has a -d option to delete a particular character.
> 
> The ^M is really a carriage return - This is an ascii 015 or can be 
> represented by the backslash token "\r".
> 
> cat dosfile.txt | tr -d '\015' > cleanfile.txt    OR
> 
> cat dosfile.txt | tr -d '\r' > cleanfile.txt
> 
> - Barb Fox
> mmp_fox at bellsouth.net
> 
> At 08:03 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> I have a file (.vimrc) which was in Windoze and now at
>> the end of each line of the file I have a "^M" which
>> is (obviously) generating lots of errors while
>> executing vim.
>>
>> I want to get rid of all the "^M". I can hand-hack it
>> but that sound inefficient. I wanted to use "flip -u"
>> but the OS I am currently in doesn't have that.
>>
>> Is there anything else I can use to get rid of that?
>>
>> TIA.
>> .noir
>>
>>
>>
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