Remove carriage returns in a text file

[Craig Routledge]

On 2007-02-19 21:04, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> I have a text file that was apparently saved on a Windows box using
> Notepad or somesuch, because it is replete with carriage returns (^M)

The command dos2unix is what you want, and should be present on most  
distributions.  No fuss.  No muss.  There are also unix2dos and mac2unix.

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