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Old 11-23-2011
control M character in unix file

in a file we are getting control character in a file , is there any way that they can be removed once we have the file

for eg.

BEGIN-PROCEDURE INITIALIZE
^M
LET #row_count = 0^M
^M
^M
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Old 11-23-2011
Quote:
tr -d '^M'
will work
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Old 11-23-2011
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