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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI - removing control characters
Keywords: vi, control characters
Message-ID: <419@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 14:19:03 GMT
References: <1600@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
Lines: 19

In article <1600@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM-> tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson) writes:
->I have files which have a visible ^M (real control M, not up-arrow M)
->at the end of every line.  This ^M is making all my files double space
->when I print them.  I have been able to remove the real <cr> character,
->from within vi, but that leaves the visible ^M; it solves the problem
->of double spacing, but is not quite a good solution.
->I want to be rid of the visible ^M.
->
->I have also attempted to use "tr", but the terminal is interpreting
->"^M" as a carriage control.  I can't seem to escape the "^M".
->

tr works for me - just try it the following way

tr -d "\015" <infile >outfile

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