Re: [aclug-L] vi question

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Sanjay Dhar wrote:
[ vi showing ^M, pico not ]

I just ran a little test.
You can have ^M chars show up in vi if you (or someone) types
^v^m
to insert it.

If you then load the file up in pico, the ^m disappears.  If you save the
file out, though, it _really_ disappears. If you open the file in pico and
exit without saving, the ^m stays.

So, I'm guessing that you have actual ^m characters in the file.
You can get rid of them with:
:1,$s/^v^m$//
(where ^v^m is you hitting control-v control-m)

There's also the dos2unix command.

-jeff
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