Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:59:34 -0500 From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> To: 'Peter Leftwich' <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: RE: special charaters (return key) Message-ID: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDD31@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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Peter Leftwich [mailto:Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com] wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, ann kok wrote: > > Hi all - how do type the special charater? ^M (return key) > - I want to remove it on the file > > > > eg [root@ann work1]# cat -v crt2.txt > > test^M > > a^M > > b^M > > c^M > > d^M > > e^M > > > > sed 's/^M//g' crt1.txt > > Thank you > > The manpage for sed says there is some issue with the newline > character > "\n" so this may not be the best approach to the problem. > Was crt1.txt > created in DOS or on a Mac? :) It was created on a DOS computer. If it was on a Mac, it wouldn't have had the newline (^J) which showed the separate lines. Try using '\r' instead of '^M' in the line above, and see if that helps... HTH, Ricky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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