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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: Help!
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Date: 1 Feb 90 21:31:40 GMT
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Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1990Feb1.164704.23581@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
:   tr -d "\012" < filename > filename.new

That will delete line feeds.  You wanted

  tr -d "\015" < filename > filename.new


Since the original poster is already using vi, it's easier to say

	:%s/^V^M//

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov