Druid628 :: Tech Tips :: DOS Line terminators in Unix (^M) |
Ok if you've ever FTP'd an ASCII over from a Windows based machine to a UNIX
machine you have probably seen this lovely little guy at the end of your
lines: ^M Here is the way to get rid of him. Whenever I run across this problem I can't ever seem to remember how to properly get rid of it well I decided I'd put up a tutorial for me and anyone else who wants to know how to correct this (it can't hurt to have another copy of it out here on the internet can it?). |
If you're using vi then simply use this command :%s/^M//g but remember the ^M isn't just the ^ and shift-m. This ^M
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For those of you who travel through the Perly gates you can use this: perl -pi -e 's/\015//g' files Just thought everyone would benefit from this. |