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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:22:00 -0700 (MST)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: special charaters (return key)
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, ann kok wrote:

> how do type the special charater? ^M (return key)
> I want to remove it on the file
> 
> sed 's/^M//g' crt1.txt

Seems like last time I wanted to do this, the BSD sed didn't understand
that a \r should be a return.  Perl does, though:

perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' crt1.txt

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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