Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:33:08 -0700 From: Eric Dyer <blackice@darksoulz.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: how to get rid of ^M character using vi Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040125103200.026dbce0@osiris.darksoulz.net> In-Reply-To: <20040125162723.GQ672@griffon> References: <BAY13-F62bUpm0RnzXo00012ad5@hotmail.com> <20040125151753.GA1798@gandalf.welch.net> <20040125162723.GQ672@griffon>
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One thing that works from the command line too col -bx < oldfile > newfile && mv newfile oldfile Picked that up from a freebsd box that had a freebsd-tips or something like that fortune file running on login At 09:27 AM 1/25/2004, Greg Wooledge wrote: >If *every* line ends with ^M (which is almost always going to be the >case, if the file has been produced on a DOS/Windows system), then >you can just use this: > >:%s/.$// > >to delete the last character of each line. This has an obvious >downside, but the advantages are that it's easier to type and to >read. > >-- >Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." >greg@wooledge.org | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers >http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | > >[demime 0.98d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature >which had a name of signature.asc]
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