Bheem, You can run dos2unix command, it will take care of this control M charaters.
-Murali > -----Original Message----- > From: AITHA, BHEEMSEN (SBCSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Perl-unix-users] ^M characters > > > Hi, > > I had copied some files from c:\ drive on to Unix machine. At > the end of > each line, I see the end of line character(^M). To get rid of > all these ^M > characters, I had opened a file in vi and performed the > following command. > > :s/^M//g > > But vi says that pattern does not exist. Is there any other > hidden character > associated here ? Can any one tell me how to get rid of them. > I have lots of > files. A small perl script would be a lot of help to me. > > Thanx.. > -Bheem > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs