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# 1  
Old 08-27-2010
Removing Special Character from File.
Hi,

My file has this special character "^M"

I would like to remove this characters.

eg:

abc,abc,^M

i tried using sed but doesnt work.

i used octal dump command to see special character it returns following:
015
\r

Appreciate your reply.
# 2  
Old 08-27-2010
Use "dos2unix" on that file.
# 3  
Old 08-27-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
Use "dos2unix" on that file.
Tried:
Code:
$ dos2unix file

ksh: dos2unix: not found


Also Tried:
Code:
sed 's/^M//g' file> file1

The file1 still has the special character ^M

Appreciate reply
# 4  
Old 08-27-2010
Code:
tr -d '\015' <file >new
mv new file

# 5  
Old 08-28-2010
there are lot of other ways possible...

sed, awk, tr, vim ....


Deleting dos chars using Vim (^M) The eternal fight between admins and computers
^M and vim
# 6  
Old 08-28-2010
try

Code:
sed 's/\^M//g' file1

# 7  
Old 08-30-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kurumi
Code:
tr -d '\015' <file >new
mv new file


Thanks this one worked.
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