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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:22:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: special charaters (return key)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204031813590.76705-100000@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020403204049.63482.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, ann kok wrote:

> how do type the special charater? ^M (return key)
> I want to remove it on the file
> 
> sed 's/^M//g' crt1.txt

Seems like last time I wanted to do this, the BSD sed didn't understand
that a \r should be a return.  Perl does, though:

perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' crt1.txt

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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