character ^M 1

[Yarka]

Hi,
I've a very long file which each line has character ^M in end of line. I edit the file with vi. I need to clear those characters. How can I erase it?

Thanks

 

[mbrooks]

To remove Microsoft's CRLF using perl do. This not only removes those annoying carriage returns, it also makes a backup of the original.

perl -i.bak -npe 's/\r\n/\n/g' [i]<filename>[/i]

M. Brooks

http://mbrooks.info

 

[Yarka]

Thanks. You're a genius.

 

[dandan123]

How difficult is it to learn perl if one knows shell ?

 

[Mike042]

How difficult is it to learn perl if one knows shell ?
I found it very easy, particularly with the help of the "Llama book" (the O'Reilly "Learning Perl" book).

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[SamBones]

Try the commands [tt]unix2dos[/tt] and [tt]dos2unix[/tt]. They exist to do this kind of conversion. See the man pages for both.