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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:26:00 -0700
From: Philip Southam <freebsd@philipsoutham.net>
To: scottro@despammed.com
Cc: shubhamr@malkauns.nsc.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: such a pain
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On Sun, 5 May 2002 00:41:49 -0500
scottro@despammed.com wrote:

> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:06:34AM +0530, shubhamr wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have some .c files which I got from my windows machine.But when I read
> > it on BSD,for every line end ^M shows up,whereever there is a
> > newline(carriage return).It is tedious to remove them manually.I have no
> > X installed on my BSD.Can anyone suggest how to get rid of them?
> > 
> > shubha
> 
> In BSD, open the file with the vi editor
> 
> vi <filename>
> 
> Once you have it there type
> 
> :%s/ctrl +V ctrl+ M//g
> 
> That will do it.
> The ctrl + V tells it to enter the next character
> literally---otherwise, the ctrl + M wouldn't show up. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Scott Robbins
> 
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You may also want to try dos2unix, it's worked to remove those pesky ^M's for me.

#dos2unix file.txt

It's located in /usr/ports/converters/unix2dos/

Philip


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