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getting rid of control characters
Post 3752 by yellowfish on Tuesday 10th of July 2001 08:44:04 PM
07-10-2001
you can try on command mode
# cat FileName|tr -d "\r" > newFileName
(i.e. cat myscript|tr -d "\r" > newmyscript)
OR on vi editor
vi FileName; after open this file on editor vi
change to command mode
then type
%s/ctrl-v ctrl-m//g
(finally, it should show :%s/^M//g)
ctrl-v will show "^"
ctrl-m will show "M"
Hope this help
# cat FileName|tr -d "\r" > newFileName
(i.e. cat myscript|tr -d "\r" > newmyscript)
OR on vi editor
vi FileName; after open this file on editor vi
change to command mode
then type
%s/ctrl-v ctrl-m//g
(finally, it should show :%s/^M//g)
ctrl-v will show "^"
ctrl-m will show "M"
Hope this help
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