Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:47:58 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "ann kok" <annkok2001@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: special charaters (return key) Message-ID: <021a01c1dbbd$d1ebadb0$b50d030a@PATRICK> References: <20020403204049.63482.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "ann kok" <annkok2001@yahoo.com> > Hi all > > how do type the special charater? ^M (return key) > I want to remove it on the file > > eg [root@ann work1]# cat -v crt2.txt > test^M > a^M > b^M > c^M > d^M > e^M > > sed 's/^M//g' crt1.txt > In this particular case (DOS text files moved onto UNIX), I just do this: sed 's/.$//g' file.txt It's the lazy way, but it works in _this_specific_case_ . Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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