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

[Gebhard Dettmar]

On Friday 17 June 2005 00:50, jett charnchoochai wrote:
> tr command on linux would do the job.
>
> [jett at norbert]$ tr '\r' '\n' < macfile.txt > unixfile.txt
Thanks, this is probably quicker than perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/' (my other 
suggestion, which up to now didn't appear on this list). But my problem 
was: if I don't see them I don't bother about them (should I make this a 
new thread?) The pitfall is then, and that's why I asked if the OP sees 
them in vim - he has troubles with vim, checks his vimrc, sees no ^M --> 
thinks "there's nothing wrong in here". But obviously he does see them - 
either he has a setting like 'set ff=I_don't_know' or he used less -u
> -jett
>
> > BTW, I can't think of problems caused by carriage returns in vim, 
I just checked it with ff=dos in my vimrc. strange reaction: after 
'vim file' it's running fast through the screen (for two seconds) then it 
opens ;-)
Regards Gebhard