[ale] FAQ alert: Losing ^M

[jimpop at rocketship.com (Jim Popovitch)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Krumwiede [mailto:krum at smyrnacable.net]
> 
> 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
> 

and another....  ;-)

   perl -e 's/^V^M//g' <filename>   

-Jim P.

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