[SunHELP] data manipulation - removing ^M's

[Bashar]

	perl -pi -e "s:^M:^V:g" filename

	the ^M and ^V are real control charecters you might not see them
but it works .

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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:

> I thought the best fix for this was dos2unix?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:27 AM
> > To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject:	Re: [SunHELP] data manipulation
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:51:40AM -0500, Dennis L. Lund wrote:
> > > I run the following script to remove the ^M:
> > > #!/usr/bin/ksh
> > > if [ -f $1 ]
> > > then
> > >    tr -d '\15' < $1 >newname
> > >    mv newname $1
> > > fi
> > 
> > Or, this does it in VI:
> > 
> > :%s/<ctrl-v><ctrl-m>//g<enter>
> > 
> > bill
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bill Bradford
> > mrbill at mrbill.net
> > Austin, TX
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