Remove carriage returns in a text file
JoeHill
joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 20 02:37:46 UTC 2007
Craig Routledge descended, with this inscribed on tablets:
> 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.
Now, that's hardly ubergeek...I didn't even have to use Vim ;-)
Thank you very much!
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