[UCLA-LUG] Getting rid of "^M"s in vi

David Fallon davef@getacard.com
Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:00:11 -0700


or you can change your file format - :help ff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Lee" <jwlee@ucla.edu>
To: <linux@linux.ucla.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Getting rid of "^M"s in vi


> "CHEN,THOMAS" wrote:
> 
> > I'm editing a text file that displays a lot of "^M" instead of carriage
> > returns.  How do I get vi to interpret and display them as such?
> 
> try :%s/\r//g or you can write a shell script to do it...
> 
> >
> >
> > -thomas
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