RE: get rid of carriage return in vi

From: Kevin Lange <kgel_at_ppoone.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:34:39 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00348A70.20010712070205@fatcity.com>

I will give you one more simple one. There is a command called dos2unix. It takes 2 parameters; a starting file and an ending file. And the file names can be the same. So, if you have a single file called "Transfered.dat" which has the ^M characters in it run

dos2unix Transfered.dat Transfered.dat

If you have multiple files you can always use the find command to run it on each of them. Lets say you have transfered 1000 .dat files over and you need to clean them all up:

find . -name "*.dat" -exec dos2unix {} {} ;\

This will find all the *.dat files in the current directory then run the dos2unix command on each.

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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 9:26 AM
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Sorry if I'm taking this too far, but I sometimes get those ^M characters in files when I FTP in the wrong mode (ascii vs. binary). If this file has been recently transferred to your Unix box, try re-FTPing it in a different mode and those ^M characters may go away.

If this doesn't apply to you, just ignore my ramblings and use one of the many good solutions provided to remove the offending character.

HTH, John D.

                    "Sairlao, Chark"

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all,

I got this file which conntans ^M in the middle of the line, how do I get rid of it in vi

thanks

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