Stripping a character

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

Our custom app (Collection Manager) generates a file which contains a number. We edited this file with vi and vi introduced a new line character, which prevents the app from reading the file.

Is there a way to strip the new line character from the file?

Regards,
Dan

 

[harris79]

Do you mean ^M at the end of each line?

If so in vi -

:g/^v^M/s// /g

To get the ^v^M bit pres ctrl+v and then ctrl+M. Also note the space after the double slash, this is what you are replacing with.

You should be able to modify this to get rid of any unwanted character.

The basic format is -

:g/old/s//new/g

Steve

 

[ddrillich]

Thank you Steve.

 

[KenCunningham]

Or use dos2unix.

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