Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:05:30 -0500 From: "Jeff Ehrenkrantz" <admin@gccomm.net> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: After the fact replacing ^M Message-ID: <003e01be3d5a$c2034de0$3142f5cf@whyy.org>
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here is an "after the fact" perl script that will strip the code from a text
file and copy the original to *.prevyou will have to use it on itself if you
use msdos to transfer the file.
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi.prev
s/\015/\n/g ;
----- Original Message -----
From: <charon@freethought.org>
To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 1999 1:59 AM
Subject: replacing ^M in vi
Whenever I save a plain text file in WinNT and open it in FreeBSD, at the
end of every line is a "^M". How do I get rid of these? I tried writing a
little C++ program to copy all text except "^M" to another file, but it
doesn't work because C++ treats the ^ and the M as different characters,
whereas vi treats them as _one_ character. After searching the mailing
list archives, I came up with the syntax ":%s/stuff/other stuff/g" as the
oh-so-intuitive replace command in vi, and I tried it, but to no avail (it
says "no match found"). Any suggestions? Thanks,
Charon@freethought.org
http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/
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