character ^M 3

[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

 

[needcoffee]

Do a search for dos2unix to find what you are looking for.

needcoffee

 

[mrn]

1,$s/<CTRL-V><ENTER>//g

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[p5wizard]

in vi:

:1,$ s/.$//<enter>

but take care, this deletes every last character of every line, even if it isn't a ctrl-M char.

safer is:

:1,$ s/<ctrl-V><ctrl-M>$//<enter>

or use a dos2unix utility as needcoffee suggested.


HTH,

p5wizard