Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 11:23:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: bluethundr@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: eliminate character with sed Message-ID: <201205201623.q4KGNmXS096669@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOZy0enEPQNFrJv-xZ-H5_18_r5rvjHQQCeFQT6x26TGTf0c0g@mail.gmail.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun May 20 11:11:00 2012
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:08:04 -0400
> From: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com>
> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: eliminate character with sed
>
> Hello list,
>
> I have a few php config files that have the windows delimiter
> character in them ('^M') that I would like to get rid of. I'm trying
> to use sed to do it, and for some reason I am not having any luck.
>
> Here's the line that I'm trying to use:
>
> #sed -i '.bak' 's/^M//g' config.php
^^
||
I strongly suspect that you are typing '^M' as _two_ characters, literally
a "^" and an "M".
_THAT_ won't work. <wry grin>
You need to type a "[CTL]V", followed by a [CTL]M, to get the right magic
in the sed command
HOWEVER, it is far easier to simply use:
tr -d "\r" <original >new
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