Hii

When i am using the following command for checking the ctrl-m characters am getting "Substitution pattern match failed" error.
Actually i jus want to check and not to substitute.
Please suggest me as whats wrong in the below command.

1,$s/Ctrl+vCtrl+m//g

Thanks

Probably the application you are using doesn't support using literal control-M:s in regex substitution. Is this sed or vi or some other beast? Is there a reason you don't just run dos2unix or comparable on the file? There is regrettably no single standard portable command which works everywhere, but search this site for "ctrl-m" or "carriage return" or "DOS" or ...

As era said or try out

cat infile| tr -d '\015' > newfile

thanks....Zaxxon...
but what is 015 in the command u gave

That's the octal value for ^M.

Btw., the better way to write it (saving the cat), correcting myself, is:

tr -d '\015' < infile > outfile

Just curious, why would you want to just check for? Any purpose for it? :/

i fyou just wanna check for^M char
open the file in vi editor press escape then type /ctrl+vctrl+m
this should work...