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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Remove ^M (carriage return) with string manipulation Post 302525766 by ctsgnb on Saturday 28th of May 2011 06:43:38 AM
Old 05-28-2011
Your problem is not clear, please give more detail.

If your input contain a lot of unexpected '\r' you can just remove them with tr -d '\r'
you can alernately use dos2unix inputfile inputfile

This will remove the '\r' from your inputfile as well.

---------- Post updated at 12:43 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:41 PM ----------

why don't you just

text="the cat"

instead of

text="the cat^M"
?
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Display FILE, or standard input, on X screen.

       -p, --pos=POS
	      This option tells osd_cat where to display the text. POS can be top, middle, or bottom. The default is top.

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	      This option tells osd_cat where to display the text. ALIGN can be left, right or center. The default is left.

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	      This  option  affects  screen  redrawing.  If SCROLL_AGE seconds pass before a new line is ready (for example, you're reading from a
	      pipe), all lines are cleared at once instead of being scrolled off as new lines replace old lines. The default is 0.
	      When no SCROLL_AGE is explicitly given, the current value from DELAY is used.

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	      from any file, but the following options can be used:

       -P, --percentage=PERCENTAGE
	      This option specified the position of the percentage / slider bar.  PERCENTAGE may be in the range from 0 to 100, the default is 50.

       -T, --text=TEXT
	      This option specifies an optional TEXT which gets displayed above the percentage bar.  The default is empty, so no  additional  text
	      is displayed.

       -h, --help
	      display help (which is often more up to date) and exit

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