i find this and seems to work good. cat {filename} | tr -d '/r' > out; mv out {new filename}
It gets rid of all them ^M from the files for me. HTH Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zhang Weiwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:00 AM Subject: newbie: use <CR> in RE? > Hello. Just want to know how to use special character in Regular Expression. > > I wish to remove all the carrier returns from a text file, I can use: > tr -d "\r" < text_file > modified_text_file > But if I do: > sed -i s/\r//g text_file > it actually removes all the character "r" from the file. > > This is also a problem in vi(1). Besides <CR> I wish to manipulate > tabstops and line-feeds with RE too. > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"