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Old 02-10-2012
how to add text as the new first line without getting ^M?
hi all, first post here

how to add text as the new first line without getting the "^M"s in vim?

I've tries
Code:
echo "new_test" cat "file_to_be_edited" > new file

and
Code:
sed -i '1i\
new_test' file_to_be_edited

these two can successfully add new_test as the new first line, but both of them adds ^M to the end of each line, which i don't want that....

any solutions to this problem?

thanks ahead
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-11-2012 at 08:54 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
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Old 02-10-2012
Nothing in UNIX adds ^M unless you ask it to. Either you're editing these files in Windows, or you're running Cygwin or something like that. Cygwin is not UNIX. It retains all the usual Windows problems.

Putting two commands on one line doesn't make it two commands unless you separate them with ;

And if you want to group the output of those two commands together, you'd do so with ( )

so:

Code:
( echo "new first line" ; cat file ) > output

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Old 02-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Nothing in UNIX adds ^M unless you ask it to. Either you're editing these files in Windows, or you're running Cygwin or something like that. Cygwin is not UNIX. It retains all the usual Windows problems.

Putting two commands on one line doesn't make it two commands unless you separate them with ;

And if you want to group the output of those two commands together, you'd do so with ( )

so:

Code:
( echo "new first line" ; cat file ) > output

thanks for your reply

i'm working on macos 10.7.3, and the server is linux which i don't the exact version.
i suppose i'm not even close to windows
# 4  
Old 02-10-2012
If you're getting carriage returns in it, I suspect one of the original files was edited in Microsoft Notepad before it was uploaded to these servers.
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