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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Invisible Ascii with VI
Message-ID: <4320@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 13:05:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 13:05:22 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 01:47:36 EDT
References: <258@unx1.UUCP>
Organization: OZ BBS - Dallas, TX
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In article <258@unx1.UUCP>, andy@unx1.UUCP (Andy Clews) writes:
> Does anyone out there know if it's possible to insert/search/replace
> non-printing ascii characters?
> CR tacked on the end of the line, and VI shows them as ^M on the screen.
> them with, say, a global substitute. I've tried 1,$s/^V^M$// but this
> does not seem to do what I want.

I get the same especially since I have a lot of PC users
here. So, not only do I get the ^M, but ^Z's as well. :-)
^M will be the last character on a line, so with vi you can
use;
	1,$s/.$//
or
	:g/^V^M/s///

That's assuming you are actually typing CTRL-V,CTRL-M...

Use the :l (el) option in ed or vi to show the invisable
values in the file.

If you use ed, you should be able to use CTRL-M within the
subsitiute statement, g/CTRL-M/s///. Where CTRL-M is your
pressing CTRL key and M at the same time.

"Works for me...." - some TV cop.

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