Control M ????

[Andrea 'Fyre Wyzard' Bocci]

At 21.08 12/02/2002 (GMT +0000), Josh Perlmutter wrote:
>for some reason my last reply got screwed up and didn't go tot he list.
>
>for those interested, there's a little perl script i have that fixes this 
>problem.
>http://comp20.eecs.tufts.edu/jperlmut/
>"clean.pl"
>
>dl the instructions too. it's all there. that is from the cross enrollment 
>course  i took. i'm suprised they haven't taken it down.
>
>
>anyway, a lot of students at deis write progs one their windows boxes and 
>the ftp them to their cs account. one of my friends wrote the script to 
>get rid of those pesky ^M characters without doing the manual work.
>
>-Josh

If you have textutils installed, you can simply do

tr -d "\r" < input_file > output_file

This removes all the occurrences of ^M in the input file.

Alternativley,

tr "\r" " " < input_file > output_file

substitues all the ^M with spaces.

fwyzard