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  bofh468

  5 years ago

  Another way to do this is with the dos2unix utility. You can also use unix2dos to add in the extra ^M (carriage-return) characters to a text file so it's readable under DOS.
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  Michilimackinac

  5 years ago

  Where foo is the file that has the control M's
  
  cat foo | col -b > foo2
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  Reetesh

  6 months ago

  Thanks it is working fine
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  a

  2 months ago

  this works ! thanks.
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  nxnwaus

  5 years ago

  type the following command:
  
  :%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!!!
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  roy

  2 months ago

  You are a genius
  roy@roy.com
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  SubZero

  5 years ago

  col -bx <dosfile> newfile
  does the biz. too :)
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  Anonymous

  5 years ago

  i want to include into .profile the possibility to dont give a user the prompt
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  BigJoe

  4 years ago

  The information about this issue was exactly what I was looking for.
  
  Right On!
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  jibin.thomas@gmail.com

  4 years ago

  Hi this was so useful it help me a lot and our compnpay H.L.L India
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  Anonymous

  4 years ago

  ...I also needed this desperately!! Thanks for posting it!
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  johnny

  4 years ago

  the dos2unix command does this too - though it may be deprecated.
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  johnny

  4 years ago

  ok so no flames :oops:
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  Richard

  3 years ago

  :D Perfect.....just what I needed ! Many Thanks !
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  Prasad

  3 years ago

  Thanks to all techy guys out there who posted solutions for this.
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  Anonymous

  3 years ago

  <ul id="quote"><h6>Richard wrote:</h6>:D Perfect.....just what I needed ! Many Thanks !</ul>
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  sasi

  3 years ago

  Hi,
  
  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
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  qmchenry

  3 years ago

  If you want to remove all blank lines in your file, search for empty lines and replace them with nothing.. since ^ means beginning of line and $ means end of line, ^$ means a blank line, so
  
  :%s/^$//g
  
  
  will find blank lines and make them disapear.
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  Anonymous

  2 years ago

  All- I need to clean a bunch of files in UNIX that contain the ^M characters.
  
  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
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  Phobian

  8 months ago

  You could try using sed, the stream editor - it works on similar principles to vi's replace tool, but you can pipe into and out of it.
  
  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
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  Maxlen

  8 months ago

  type the following command in vi
  
  :%s/.$//
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  Yo Whirrd up

  8 months ago

  Try perl -pi -e'tr/\015//d' <filename>
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  pradeep

  7 months ago

  yes the ":%s/^ v ^M//g" is working... thank you very much...
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  soma

  6 months ago

  this solution is not working for ubuntu..:(
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  thanks

  5 months ago

  thank you for the nice tips. I have plenty of ctrl+M symbols in the dump txt files from dol.
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  Neo

  4 months ago

  great info.. thanks
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  3pe

  4 months ago

  another way to get rid of those ^M's
  :%s/\r//g
  btw other systems then *nix are treating newlines differently :P
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  Ashish

  2 months ago

  :%s/\r/\r/g
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  xx

  2 months ago

  use $ to replace only at the end
  :%s@^M$@@g
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  sam

  1 month ago

  Excellent
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  S

  1 month ago

  thanks it works well
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