Re: stripping the ^M

[Statux <statux bigfoot com>]

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?
>
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Well my head is telling me that ^M and the endline characters, though
basically the same, are sorta different.