Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:11:09 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: chkrootkit@hotmail.com (marlon corleone) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get rid of ^M character using vi Message-ID: <200401261511.i0QFBAK14915@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <BAY13-F62bUpm0RnzXo00012ad5@hotmail.com> from "marlon corleone" at Jan 25, 2004 09:43:21 AM
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> how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i used the
> arguments '-w'
> but what about in vi?
Those are extra carriage return characters generally displayed
as CR or ^M or \r depending on which programmers convention is
being used.
There are lots of ways to strip then including those using vi and
sed and perl, etc. The one I use which I find easiest is to run tr(1)
THis is in FreeBSD standard. You don't have to install a port just
for that like you do for some of the utilities that will do it.
Check out the man page.
Presuming your file is myfile.crs just do:
tr -d "\r" < myfile.crs > myfile.fixed
and it will remove (-d) all carriage return characters ("\r")
and write the results to myfile.fixed.
It will work for modifying other stuff across a whole file too.
You just have to learn its idea of the right conventions for
special characters (if it involves special characters).
////jerry
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> cheers
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