getting rid of ^M

[Florin Iamandi]

Craig Hammond dixit (2006-09-01, 10:20:04):

> After FTPing a heap of files from Windows to OBSD, I have found that a
> lot of the text them have a ^M at the end of each line. Is there any
> easy way to recursively strip out the ^M of all affected files in a
> number of directories.

Use something like this, where ^M is obtained by pressing CTRL-V
followed by CTRL-M:

for i in `ls`; do sed 's/^M//g' $i > $i.new;done

-- 
Digitally yours,
Florin Iamandi (Slippery)
Reason is the first victim of emotion. -- Scytale, Dune Messiah

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