Can´t remove some wierd character ^M

[kartapacio]

Hi everybody,
I´m afraid this is something very stupid, but is driving me mad!!

I cant find a way to remove a ^M mark. That mark is^M present at the end of the line like this one^M
^M
^M (this i get if the line is empty)
I can see it only when I edit the file with vi (if i do a 'more' of the file, i cant see it.)

I guess is some sort of trailing character (The file´s source is a printing of a cobol program).

How can i remove that mark and leave it with the usual ^ for beguinnig and $ for end? (i`ve tried several sed commands but can´t find the way of doing it)

Any help would be very appreciated, thank´s in advance

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
awk '{gsub(/\r/,"");print}' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[kartapacio]

Hi PHV,

It worked perfectly !!! You make it look so easy, specially for newbies like me.

Thanks!!

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

Also you could use the dos2unix command.




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[LKBrwnDBA]

Or also:

cat infile|tr -d '\r' >outfile


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[mikevh]

IIRC, you can do it in vi like this:
:1,$s/ctrl-Vctrl-M//

where ctrl- means press the control key.
I gave up vi for Emacs years ago, but typed that one often enough that I think I still remember it. (Vi users out there, feel free to correct me if my memory is failing.)