Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:26:00 -0700 From: Philip Southam <freebsd@philipsoutham.net> To: scottro@despammed.com Cc: shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: such a pain Message-ID: <20020508102600.2f925d3d.freebsd@philipsoutham.net> In-Reply-To: <20020505054149.GA2060@scott1.homeunix.net> References: <3CD4B6D2.9858CAE0@malkauns.nsc.com> <20020505054149.GA2060@scott1.homeunix.net>
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On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:41:49 -0500 scottro@despammed.com wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:06:34AM +0530, shubhamr wrote: > > Hi, > > I have some .c files which I got from my windows machine.But when I read > > it on BSD,for every line end ^M shows up,whereever there is a > > newline(carriage return).It is tedious to remove them manually.I have no > > X installed on my BSD.Can anyone suggest how to get rid of them? > > > > shubha > > In BSD, open the file with the vi editor > > vi <filename> > > Once you have it there type > > :%s/ctrl +V ctrl+ M//g > > That will do it. > The ctrl + V tells it to enter the next character > literally---otherwise, the ctrl + M wouldn't show up. > > HTH > > Scott Robbins > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > You may also want to try dos2unix, it's worked to remove those pesky ^M's for me. #dos2unix file.txt It's located in /usr/ports/converters/unix2dos/ Philip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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