Carriage return and line feed (Re: [Techtalk] get rid of "^M" in
a file)
Lina Mårtensson
plastic at dtek.chalmers.se
Fri Jun 17 08:37:40 EST 2005
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:25:11PM -0700, maria wrote:
> So the files I have been looking at were actually created on a mac, and
> seem to only have the ^M. If I remove the ^M I just get one big glob of
> text.
In that case, if you want to do it in vim, you do:
:% s/ctrl-v ctrl-m/ctrl-v ctrl-enter/g
When you see this on the vim command line, it will show up like this:
:% s/^M/^M/g
Even though they look the same, this will work and all the ^M's will be
replaced by line feed characters.
/Lina
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