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From: Andreas Ntaflos <ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net>
To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: ^M on end of lines
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 05:43:18PM -0500, David Loszewski wrote:
> Yea, but then I have to do that to all the files
> Not pretty when you have a 100 files
> 
> Dave
> 
>> a simple fix after dl is to open it up in vi and do
>> :%s,^V^M,,g
>> 
>> -r

The following perl command issued on the CLI will get 
rid of these annoying ^Ms.

# perl -e -i -p 's/\r\n/\n/s' filename

you can use wildcards too.

There are also ports to solve these problems, like dos2unix.

regards
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	Andreas "ant" Ntaflos	
	ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net
	Vienna, AUSTRIA

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