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From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi map help needed
Summary: try tr
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Date: 7 Mar 91 23:29:43 GMT
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Gene De Lisa writes:
>I'd like to remove those control-M cookies at the end on lines
>that you get from CPM to UNIX files. I usually type
>:%s/control-vcontrol-M$//

A common approach to this problem is to use tr.  For example,
tr -d '\015' < cpmfile > unixfile

I realize that this does not directly answer the original question of
how to do this with an interactive editor.  Depending on the job to be
done, sometimes the filters (tr, grep, sed, awk and friends) are the
best way to go.

Brian Fitzgerald