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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 1997 08:33:11 -0500
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@mexcom.net>
To:        gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Stripping ^M from llines?
Message-ID:  <34082117.10820BBF@mexcom.net>
References:  <199708300228.TAA05602@myrtle.bogs.org>

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Greg Shenaut wrote:
> 
> In message <34076F58.B5DBAC3F@chalmers.com.au>, Robert Chalmers cleopede:
> >Hi,
> >Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text
> >lines in fbsd?
> 
> Try this C program (fixnl).  Maybe it'll work.
> (I use it on BSD/OS and MS-DOS, but haven't tried it
> on fbsd.)  It is gzipped and uuencoded.
> 
I would suggest something a little simpler.
sed 's/^M$//' filename>filename.tmp
mv filename.tmp filename  
The ^M is done with the vi editor first typing 
control v followed by a control m.

This can obviously be put in a simple shell program
to solve the problem forever:-)

ed



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