In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > >Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall >a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a >text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that >Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there >such a standard utility or do I have to dig even >deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^> In vi: :/g/^V^M$/s/// (where ^V means control-V)
or, again in vi: :1,$s/.$// or, in ed or sed: 1,$s/.$// if you are sure that _every_ line ends with an unwanted character. It seems simpler than installing a special utility. I expect perl or awk would also offer entertaining solutions! If you copy from a mounted msdos filesystem, or ftp in ascii mode, you avoid the problem in the first place. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://homepages.enterprise.net/olly In case of connection troubles, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
