Re: ^M characters

Hello Will,

Thursday, June 27, 2002, 6:21:45 PM, you wrote:

W> ---quote---
W> When i save a text file in NT, i do not see those ^M carriage returns,
W> however, when i move the file to the samba share and use cat, more, or vi, i
W> see carriage returns on every line, how can i remove this automatically?
W> ---end quote---

W> this happens quite a lot.  It's because something about windows feels the
W> need to insert both a carriage return and a new line at the end of each line
W> in a text file, while vi only uses one of the above.
W> An easy solution I've found is to use pico (text editor - if you're using
W> debian it's not installed by default, most others it is).  Open the file
W> (via pico filename), hit the "write out" command, and it strips it of the
W> control-M characters.  Then feel free to vi / vim it to death.
W> I've thought about writing a little script which strips these out, but then,
W> i think, why?  Pico works fine.

I don't want to get into the relative merits of vi vs pico, but I do
want people to know you can do the same thing in vi (in ESC mode):

%s/[Control v][Control m]//g

(that is hold the control key down and type v then m).


allan
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