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From: "Adam Wood" <woodfucius@attbi.com>
To: "'ann kok'" <annkok2001@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: special charaters (return key)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:05:28 -0600
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> how do type the special character? ^M (return key)
> I want to remove it on the file

You could use tr to remove the ^M characters like this:

cat file | tr -d '\015'

or this to make a new file:

tr -d '\015' < file.txt > newfile.txt

This works also:

tr -d '\r' < file.txt > newfile.txt

Hope that helps.

Adam



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