Re: stripping the ^M

[Michael George <george mintcity com>]

On Apr 09, 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
> 
> doesn't work.  And neither does
> 
> $ sed -e s/\^M//g filename
> 
> How can you match control characters in the regexp?

You are probaly using the shift-6 for the caret character?  Instead, type
ctrl-v and then ctrl-m.  That will probably make the difference.

-Michael

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