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From: mday@ohs.UUCP (Matthew T. Day)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI - removing control characters
Message-ID: <435@ohs.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 89 17:37:57 GMT
References: <1600@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Organization: Orem High School, Orem, Utah
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From article <1600@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>, by tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson):
> 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.

In "vi":
:1,$ s/^V^M$//g

Sometimes, in the csh of tcsh, you can use ^V on the command line to
escape a character, that way you could use tr.
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