Just incase you don't know, and incase anyone else on the list wants to know, with VI,
it is easy to remove those control characters.
:g/ctrl V ctrl M/s///g
The control V and control M will set up the ^M control to the :g which is the global
replace command. :)
Jason Fay
On a tangentially related note I learned (yesterday at about noon) that I
would
have to have our product ready for a customer demo today at noon. And that
the
documentation I'd been doing would have to wait. That afternoon I ran the
product
through its paces and got cryptic "Can't open file" messages in the error
log.
Turns out that the documentation template I was using had been done on
Windows
while the program resided on a Linux box.
To the normal editor and print out it looked like this:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
##### BLAH BLAH BLAH
##### REALLY OBSCURE COMMENT
##### BLAH BLAH BLAH
It was only when I looked at it with VIM some hours later
that the error jumped out:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl^M
^M
##### BLAH BLAH BLAH ^M
on the nonworking ones and
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
^M
##### BLAh BLAH BLAH
on the working ones.
Hope this saves one of you some gray hairs some day.
Todd
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