Removing carriage return control characters from an ASCII file

[Paul Ammirata]

Hi,

I have an ASCII file with carriage return control characters. When I browse the file in vi it looks like this:

line 1 of text^M
line 2 of text^M

How can I remove the carriage return control characters so that I'm left with:

line 1 of text
line 2 of text

Thanks,
Paul

[Sachin Patel · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul,
#dos2ux file1 > file2
#mv file2 file1

Now your file1 will be without ^M

Sachin

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Paul:

You can easily deal with this with the 'dos2ux' (and inversely, with the 'ux2dos') utilities. See the man pages for more information:

# dos2ux oldfile > newfile

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Paul:

Another variation on the same theme:

cat oldfile | tr -d "\015" > newfile

tr -d will delete the CR's (octal 15's)

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hello

Try this
sed 's/^M//' FILENAME > NEWFILE
or
use
# dos2ux /tmp/myfile > /tmp/myfile.new

Good luck
-USA..

[harry d brown jr]

If you are already into the file using vi and you see them, then do this:

:1
:s/ctrl-Vctrl-M$//999999

note ctrl-V and ctrl-M will redraw into ^M - don't forget the $ sign

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Paul,

As you can see there IS more than one way to skin a cat. If you got the file via FTP from a Windows environment using binary mode you'd get the ^M. Use ascii mode and FTP takes care of the translation for you. Otherwise, dos2ux is great.

Darrell