Removing Control characters from file

Dingatron · 09-12-2002 12:02PM #1

Hi guys. I'm having a problem with a file that was originally created with MS notepad. It contains the carrage returns (^M). I am using Sco Unix and have always used g/^M/s///g which works, however it won't for this file for some reason. Anyone know another alternitive using SED etc? This is wreaking my head on a Monday morning.
Thanks.

jmcc · 09-12-2002 12:33PM

http://www.ptug.org/sed
http://www.ptug.org/sed/one_liners.html

Regards...jmcc

Dingatron · 09-12-2002 12:47PM

Excellent. My Monday morning blues are gone. That'll do nicely. Thanks jmcc for the quick reply. I owe u one :-)

longword · 09-12-2002 09:20PM

tr is a fun tool. In this case, tr -d '\r' should get the job done.

Dingatron · 09-12-2002 11:31PM

Wow, so many tools so little time. Both sed and tr seem much better options than vi. Problem sorted. Still wonder why it wouldn't work with vi. Thanks again for the replys.

Inspector Gadget · 13-12-2002 03:46PM

According to this page, SCO ships with unix2dos and dos2unix, so you could always just use them instead?

Example:
dos2unix <originalfile> <newfile>

Gadget

Removing Control characters from file

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