On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:46:01 PM UTC-6, stosss wrote: >> >> >> A couple weeks ago I had 4 files that I created on my Linux system and >> >> did not move them or share them and some how they were showing a ^M >> >> when I was doing a grep and sed search and replace from the shell. > > The problem wasn't "showing a ^M", that's pretty common. The problem was that > EVERY line was terminated ONLY by a ^M and there were NO linefeed characters > in the file at all, so the file was showing as one long line with a bunch of > ^M characters. >
Okay :-) thanks. I didn't realize that happens a lot with the "^M". They showed up again in a file last night but not the continuous single line. Then they were gone without me doing anything. I have never actually seen them when opening the actual file. Only when doing a shell command that out puts to the screen. Like grep, cat, head, tail etc. I have also never seen them in a file created when using a redirect away from the screen. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
