Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

Bryan Cassidy b_cassidy at bellsouth.net
Sun Nov 30 19:34:16 PST 2003


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Well, why have a BUNCH of ^M characters in your file if you don't *need*
them? If there is no point in having these characters I want them
removed. BTW, your command worked fine. I've tried it on several files
and it works just fine. Thanks.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 03:53:00 +0100
Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-questions at webteckies.org> wrote:

> On Monday 01 December 2003 04:39, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> 
> > Well, I take that back. It worked on 1 file and then ir started
> > erasing the contents of the file.
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:29:13 -0600
> >
> > Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Sorry about sending you a e-mail directly. The tr -d '/r' < name >
> 
> > > Robin Schoonover <end at endif.cjb.net> wrote:
> > > > name). Also you can use the tr command (tr -d '\r' < name >
> 
> Spot the difference.
> 
> Another way: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r$//' *.xhtml
> 
> BTW: why is this even an issue that needs a solution? XHTML doesn't
> care one way or the other, since all linear spacing is folded into one
> space.-- 
> Melvyn
> 
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