Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
In message <[🔎] 9706051135.AA00852@Priss.com>, writes:
>
>Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall
>a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a
>text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that
>Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there
>such a standard utility or do I have to dig even
>deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^>
In vi:
:/g/^V^M$/s///
(where ^V means control-V)
or, again in vi:
:1,$s/.$//
or, in ed or sed:
1,$s/.$//
if you are sure that _every_ line ends with an unwanted character.
It seems simpler than installing a special utility.
I expect perl or awk would also offer entertaining solutions!
If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you
avoid the problem in the first place.
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