[olug] How to remove ^M's from files?

[Shaughn]

Thanks for everyones suggestions...

cat <in_file> | col -bx > <out_file>

actually seemed what I wanted, :) I had to figure out how to do it from bsd.

thanks for everyones help!

Sean Kelly wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:34:59AM -0600, Shaughn wrote:
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>>i have a bunch of web pages that have ^M's as the end because they 
>>weren't saved correctly.
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>>I vaguely remember a command line trick to get rid of these?
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>>anyone know that?
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>tr -d "^M" < infile > outfile
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>Note that you have to quote that ^M to be able to type it. Try ^V^M.
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