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

[Buddhika Siddhisena]

Another option is to use a tool called dos2unix.

Bud

On 6/16/05, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> 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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