col -bx < oldfile > newfile && mv newfile oldfile
Picked that up from a freebsd box that had a freebsd-tips or something like that fortune file running on login
At 09:27 AM 1/25/2004, Greg Wooledge wrote:
If *every* line ends with ^M (which is almost always going to be the case, if the file has been produced on a DOS/Windows system), then you can just use this:
:%s/.$//
to delete the last character of each line. This has an obvious downside, but the advantages are that it's easier to type and to read.
-- Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers http://wooledge.org/~greg/ |
[demime 0.98d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
_______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
