Removing non-printable characters via sed?

[jping45]

How would I go about removing the "^M" character using sed.
This file was pulled from a Windows env. and placed on an AIX env... I know there is a dos2unix command on Solaris but there isn't one like that on AIX. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Jake

 

[vgersh99]

tr -d '\015' < file

sed 's/'`echo &quot;\015&quot;`'//g' file

 

[jping45]

That seems to have answered my questions.....

Thanks a bunch

Regards
Jake

 

[shaokat]

How can I replace the non-printable characters with white spaces? This particular script only removes the non-printable chars.

 

[marsd]

Does: sed 's/'`echo &quot;\015&quot;`'/ /g' file
Work for you?

 

[shaokat]

No! there are some characters that are made up to 2 chars and only one white space gets replaced. I tried that and it messes the fixed length field length of records.