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Date:      Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:44:55 +0100
From:      Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
To:        David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ^M on end of lines
Message-ID:  <20011103004455.B1274@Deadcell.ANT>
In-Reply-To: <003301c163ef$c4d8ca40$3000b1d8@sickness>; from stealth215@mediaone.net on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:43:18PM -0500
References:  <20011102172444.L97368@happy.cow.org> <003301c163ef$c4d8ca40$3000b1d8@sickness>

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:43:18PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> Yea, but then I have to do that to all the files
> Not pretty when you have a 100 files
> 
> Dave
> 
>> a simple fix after dl is to open it up in vi and do
>> :%s,^V^M,,g
>> 
>> -r

The following perl command issued on the CLI will get 
rid of these annoying ^Ms.

# perl -e -i -p 's/\r\n/\n/s' filename

you can use wildcards too.

There are also ports to solve these problems, like dos2unix.

regards
-- 
	Andreas "ant" Ntaflos	
	ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net
	Vienna, AUSTRIA

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