[ale] FAQ alert: Losing ^M

[krum at smyrnacable.net (Kevin Krumwiede)]

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 14:16, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> if you have dos2unix that will work, if not in vi you can use the following
> command at the ":" prompt:
> 
>        %s/^V^M//
> 
> NOTE: the ^V^M pair are 2 keystrokes (CTRL-V and CTRL-M).

vi, pico... It must be the day for making things complicated!

What's wrong with 'cat $file | tr -d \\15 > ~tmp && mv ~tmp $file'?

Okay, nevermind.

Krum


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