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From: Prashant Dongre <pdongre@opentech.stpn.soft.net>
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Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Hi,
> Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text
> lines in fbsd?
> I currently use tr -d '\015', but this falls over text that
> has the : chararacter in it, complaining about it being a
> directory?
>
> cheers,
> Bob
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  I used to take vi's help to do this....

Prashant