Re: stripping the ^M

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 00:46 1999-04-09 -0400, Cimarron Ryan wrote:
>Just for kicks, I decided to try and strip the nasty ^M from windows/dos
>text files using sed.
>
>$ sed -e s/^M//g filename

I don't use sed, but carriage returns are generally represented by \r. So
try this:

$ sed -e s/\r//g filename



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