Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!tim
From: tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <2024@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 2 Feb 90 14:59:50 GMT
References: <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@ncrcan.UUCP (Tim Nelson)
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Organization: NCR Canada Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario
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In article <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> william@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William H. York) writes:
>I use my PC to write text files in word perfect then I save in dos format
>to upload to our vax.  When the file is cat'ed, the ^M's don't show, but
>when vi'ing they become real annoying!  Is there a file I can pipe it 
>through to remove the ^M's or perhaps a way vi can be used to remove them?

vi:  %s/.$/
     g/^V^M$/s///
sed: sed 's/.$//' infile >outfile
tr:  tr -d '\15' <infile >outfile

Any of these should work.


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