This question is asked many times in similar forms...is there a perlfaq for
this? If not, we need to look into submitting one.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Joyce Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: ^M's in file
>
> Unix comes with the "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" commands (or scripts) that
> takes care of the ^M problem.
> If you do not have dos2unix, you could use sed or vi.
>
> In sed:
> --------
>
> sed 's/^M//' {infile} > {outfile}
>
> where ^M is created by
> holding down the Ctrl and press the character v key followed by
> the character m key
>
>
> PS: m and v implies lower case m and lower case v.
>
>
> That is:
> fofmx1:/william/spool(23)% cal > a; unix2dos a b; cat -tev a b
> January 2002$
> S M Tu W Th F S$
> 1 2 3 4 5$
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12$
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19$
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26$
> 27 28 29 30 31$
> $
> January 2002^M$
> S M Tu W Th F S^M$
> 1 2 3 4 5^M$
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12^M$
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19^M$
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26^M$
> 27 28 29 30 31^M$
> ^M$
>
> fofmx1:/william/spool(25)% sed 's/^M//' b > c ; cat -tev c
> January 2002$
> S M Tu W Th F S$
> 1 2 3 4 5$
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12$
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19$
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26$
> 27 28 29 30 31$
>
>
> In vi
> ------
>
> Go into command mode (i.e., Esc, Shift :)
> Then enter
>
> :1,$s/^M//
>
> Where ^M => holding down the Ctrl and press the character v key followed
> by
> the character m key
>
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