Remove carriage returns in a text file

[S. Krishnan]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:04 -0500, 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), which only appear
> when I open the file with Nano.

Pipe it through tr(1) invoked as something like tr -d '\015', which will
delete the CRs.  If you want to convert the carriage returns to line
feeds you can try tr '\015' '\012'.

HTH.
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