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Date:      Sun, 08 May 2005 12:53:06 -0700
From:      Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd] On removing ^M
Message-ID:  <427E6E22.3030400@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050508214047.109a3584.regisr@pobox.com>
References:  <20050508192019.127ED1CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> <20050508214047.109a3584.regisr@pobox.com>

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regisr wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2005 14:20:19 -0500
> "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am wondering what is needed (what tool or what code) to
>>do a mass (recursive) removal of ^Ms?
> 
> 
> try:
> tr -d "\r" < input-file > output-file
> 
> 

Or:
perl -pi -e 's/\015//' *.c

which will edit all .c files in place, or:

perl -pi.bak -e's/\015//' *.c

Which will also edit the files in place but leave the originial files 
with a .bak extension. Just a little easier to do on a whole directory 
of files than using tr.

OK,
Matt



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