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From: "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net>
To: Jason Oakley <waulok@bangrocks.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: __ how to eliminate "^M" in ASCII files.
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I use this...

#!/bin/sh
echo ""
echo "Removing Windows silly ^M's for the following files..."
echo ""
for file in $*; do
	echo ---- $file
	tr -d "\015" < $file > $file.$$
	cp $file.$$ $file
	rm -f $file.$$
done
echo ""
exit 0

Works wonderfully and can do many files at once.

Cheers,

Mark

On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:20:38 +1000 (EST), Jason Oakley said:

> save them with UNIX line ends (A handy feature of Arachnophilia
>  www.arachnoid.com).  Or do a search and replace in your favourite text
>  editor.
>  
>  VI:
>  
>  %s/^V^M//g
>  
>  
>  On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, bsdnewbie bsdnewbie wrote:
>  
>  ]:Is there any tool can eliminate "^M" in text files?
>  ]:Thanks in advance.
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Mark Sergeant
Unix Systems Administrator

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