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YOU FIXED MY PROBLEM!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I thought I was just using grep wrong but it was the file all along!!!! I think it has to do with me copying and pasting text from an html document into nano through PUTTY!

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Code:

$ dos2unix file
$ tr -d '\r' < file 
$ ruby -i.bak -pne 'gsub("\r","")' file

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