strange character ^M

chandan · 07-09-2003, 01:27 AM

I typed a file in dos.
when i opened the same file in vi, each line ends with ^M
it looks very bad.
how to remove all these ^M.
is there any vi command to help me.
thanks in advance.

Tinkster · 07-09-2003, 01:30 AM

^M = DOS-Line-feed (CR/LF)

Most distro's will come
with either todos and fromdos
or a dos2unix and unix2dos...

Cheers,
Tink

lfur · 07-09-2003, 02:38 AM

You can also remove ^M with:

in vi (or vim):
:1,$ s'^M''g

or with tr:
tr -d '^M' <inputfile >outputfile