how to get rid of ^M character using vi

[Eric Dyer]

One thing that works from the command line too

col -bx < oldfile > newfile && mv newfile oldfile

Picked that up from a freebsd box that had a freebsd-tips or something like 
that fortune file running on login

At 09:27 AM 1/25/2004, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>If *every* line ends with ^M (which is almost always going to be the
>case, if the file has been produced on a DOS/Windows system), then
>you can just use this:
>
>:%s/.$//
>
>to delete the last character of each line.  This has an obvious
>downside, but the advantages are that it's easier to type and to
>read.
>
>--
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