Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:43:36 +0000 () From: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au> To: "Randall D. DuCharme" <randyd@nconnect.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MS-DOS text files in UNIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960925214043.462D-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: <324754C2.41C67EA6@nconnect.net>
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On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Randall D. DuCharme wrote: >I've read numerous things about adding the CR-LF back into text >files for use with DOS, but what about the other way?? Is there >a way to remove that annoying ^M from a DOS text file under >FBSD? tr -d '\015' <infile >outfile >I've tried many things but nothing short of removing them >one-by-one seems to work. Ouch. vi's global search/replace will also work fine if you have to edit it for other reasons. g:/^V^M/s///g (^V^M will look like just ^M when you type it in - the ^V "escapes" the ^M - and ^V means Ctrl-V and ^M meand Ctrl-M). David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn
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