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cat foo | col -b > foo2
:%s/<control-v><control-m>//g
^M is the result of a control V, control M at the end of the line. if you actually hit control-v then control-m, "^M" will appear and will get rid of the character at the end of the line. hope this helps someone!!!
roy@roy.com
col -bx <dosfile> newfiledoes the biz. too :)
Right On!
THere is lot of non-continous blank lines in my shell. I want to find the blank line and I want to remove it. What is the command for that?
Sasi, India
:%s/^$//gwill find blank lines and make them disapear.
While I can do each one individually by :%s/^M//g I would like to know if there is an easy command line execution to serarch for any files containing the errors and correct them.
I tried this for all *.sql files in a given directory, but it didn't work:
for name in `ls *.sql` ; do sed 's/^M//' $name > ${name/.sql/N.sql} ; mv ${name/.sql/N.sql} $name ; done
If anyone has a suggestion or knows a simple script that can be run please let me know.
Thanks
So, to change one file:
cat fileName | sed s/<ctrl-v><ctrl-m>//g >tmp && mv tmp fileName
Do NOT try to read from and write to the same file in one pipe, or you'll blank the file
To change all files in a directory with the .sql ending, run the following script whilst inside that directory:
#/bin/ksh
for fileName in $(ls *.sql); do
cat $fileName | sed s/^M//g >tmp && mv tmp $fileName
done
(bear in mind to enter ^M you need to enter <ctrl-v><ctrl-m> as above.
Hope that helps people
-phobiandarkmoon
:%s/.$//
:%s/\r//g
btw other systems then *nix are treating newlines differently :P
:%s@^M$@@g
When I do :%s/^M//g in my file, it says "Pattern not Found: ^M".
But when I see the temp.txt file for the diff it shows ^M on all the lines.
Help me out for this, I dont want ^M in temp.txt file
grt man. it worked for me. keep up the good work.
br
"If you enter a value of 10, it will end up in the file as a 0. The 10 is a
<NL>, which is used internally to represent the <Nul> character. When writing
the buffer to a file, the <NL> character is translated into <Nul>. The <NL>
character is written at the end of each line. Thus if you want to insert a
<NL> character in a file you will have to make a line break."
echo file | sed 's/\r//g'
:set expandtab
:%s/^M/<Tab>/g
All it is doing is putting "<Tab>" with the "^M" used to be. Any way to actually make the spaces appear? Thanks for your help.
Thanks for the info.. I need to move the lines to the top after the ctrlM charecter. Is this possible ??