AITHA, BHEEMSEN (SBCSI) wrote:
> 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.
Try one of these:
:g/^V^M/s///<CR> # where ^V and ^M are ctrl-V and ctrl-M
or this may work (or maybe not on UNIX, but it will on Win32):
:set notextmode # change to textmode
:w # write the file
:e! # re-edit the file
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