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Old 10-12-2012
removing of junk character
Dear ALL,
How to remove junk charecter ^M from unix file i am using sun solaris unix.
I already tried few commands
Code:
:%s/^M//g
:%s/r//g

but it didnt helped me.

Any help appriciated.

Thanks

Ripudaman

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Last edited by vbe; 10-12-2012 at 05:07 AM..
# 2  
Old 10-12-2012
try dos2unix command

Code:
 
dos2unix filename filename

# 3  
Old 10-12-2012
how to do that i have to transfer the file to local system??
then again to unix??

---------- Post updated at 03:02 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:54 AM ----------

u there pls tell me is there any way to remove that word there is only one option manually or what??
# 4  
Old 10-12-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by ripudaman.singh
Dear ALL,
How to remove junk charecter ^M from unix file i am using sun solaris unix.
I already tried few commands
Code:
:%s/^M//g
:%s/r//g

but it didnt helped me.

Any help appriciated.

Thanks

Ripudaman

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please view this code tag video for how to use code tags when posting code and data.

As you mentioned, "i am using sun solaris"

you can use dos2unix command
# 5  
Old 10-12-2012
Try like..

Code:
tr -d '\r' <test.txt

# 6  
Old 10-12-2012
Please try:-

Code:
sed 's/'"$(printf '\015')"'$//g' input_file > output_file

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