Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:55:47 +0800 From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@hello.com.tw> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing ^M in vi Message-ID: <3699CAA3.559953BA@hello.com.tw> References: <3.0.5.32.19990110225910.00a2f220@mail>
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charon@freethought.org wrote: > Whenever I save a plain text file in WinNT and open it in FreeBSD, at the > end of every line is a "^M". How do I get rid of these? I tried writing a > little C++ program to copy all text except "^M" to another file, but it > doesn't work because C++ treats the ^ and the M as different characters, > whereas vi treats them as _one_ character. After searching the mailing > list archives, I came up with the syntax ":%s/stuff/other stuff/g" as the > oh-so-intuitive replace command in vi, and I tried it, but to no avail (it > says "no match found"). Any suggestions? Thanks, Use this command at the prompt: tr -d "\015" < filename1 > filename2 Hope this helps, Kevin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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