[olug] How to remove ^M's from files?

[Sean Kelly]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:34:59AM -0600, Shaughn wrote:
> i have a bunch of web pages that have ^M's as the end because they 
> weren't saved correctly.
> 
> I vaguely remember a command line trick to get rid of these?
> 
> anyone know that?

tr -d "^M" < infile > outfile

Note that you have to quote that ^M to be able to type it. Try ^V^M.

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