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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A little help with SED and embedded ^M please.
Message-ID: <62@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 04:01:22 GMT
References: <5483@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
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In article <5483@sigi.Colorado.EDU> murillo@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo) writes:
 > 
 >Also, I have recently had text files that have an emmbeded ^M char
 >at the end of every line.  I know this has something to do with
 >CR/LF conversion.  But how do I get rid of it? Thanks.
 >

tr -d '\015' < infile > outfile

This works on System V -- I don't know if the BSD version of tr(1) understands
the -d option (== delete specified chars), or if it understands octal escapes.
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