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
> 
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