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Subject: Re: Substitute command on vi
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On 2006-05-05 10:12, Aguiar Magalhaes <magalhj@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I need to substitute a lot of characters ^M (ctrl+M)
> at the end of each line in my file.
>
> The command :%s/^M//g insn't have success.

The command looks fine, except for a tiny detail:

Make sure you use ^V ^M to insert a *literal* ^M character in the
match pattern, instead of two different characters '^' and 'M'.
Then it should work.