On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 02:17:39PM -0600, James Ng wrote:
> hello:
>
> can somebody teach me how do i write a perl script to delete the
> character ^M in a file.
> for example, i have a file called index.html and i want to delete all the
> ^M characters in the file. Thank you.
>
perl is kinda overkill for this. It can be done with tr or sed
tr -d '\015' < file
or
sed -n -e l file | sed 's/\\r\|\$$//g'
but it you truly desire perl, this will do it:
perl -e 'while (<>){print split/\x0d/;}'
have fun
greg
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