how to get rid of ^M character using vi
Albert Vest
alvest at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 25 09:35:16 PST 2004
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:02:51 -0500
Avijit Pathania <foulplay at foulplay.org> wrote:
> Looks like your file might have been edited in a dos text editor. You
> can try running dos2unix against it to see if that helps.
Looks like a jump to conclusions. I find the same artifact every time I run script (usually when building ports, to capture the output). THE ^M (sometimes two) are plainly visible when opening the file in ee. All FreeBSD4.7, no dos involved.
> marlon corleone wrote:
>
> > how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i
> > used the arguments '-w'
> > but what about in vi?
> >
> > cheers
Thanks,
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