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        How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
        that appear when using Emacs?

                        Thanks,

Quote:>    How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
>    that appear when using Emacs?
>                    Thanks,

   tr -d '\015' <in >out

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>> How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
>> that appear when using Emacs?

Pierre>    tr -d '\015' <in >out

Yes, but if you are already in Emacs, why not simply do the following:

         M-x replace-string C-m C-q C-m C-m

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>>> How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
>>> that appear when using Emacs?

Pierre> tr -d '\015' <in >out

jmf> Yes, but if you are already in Emacs, why not simply do the following:

jmf>          M-x replace-string C-m C-q C-m C-m

Sorry, I left out a C-m!

Try this:

               M-x replace-string C-m C-q C-m C-m C-m

Sorry about the typo above...

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:>   How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
:>   that appear when using Emacs?

query-replace-string ^M with ''

where '' is nothing, just hit enter.. that should kill them
if you wanted to shell out for a second, you could also:

sed s/^M// < input_file > output_file
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: :> How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
: :> that appear when using Emacs?

: query-replace-string ^M with ''

: where '' is nothing, just hit enter.. that should kill them
: if you wanted to shell out for a second, you could also:

: sed s/^M// < input_file > output_file

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Windows 2.0c and found that there're carriage returns at the end of each
line.  How to remove the CRs and re-paginate the text?

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:       How do I get rid of the ^M characters from a text file
:       that appear when using Emacs?

tr -d -c '\r' < infile > outfile

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cat infile |col -b > outfile

Do be aware that this strips ALL control characters!

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: In UNIX V.4, I use col(1)

: cat infile |col -b > outfile

: Do be aware that this strips ALL control characters!

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I found some source code that I compiled on my system to convert from
pc text to unix text and also the other way around
the file was
        pc2unix.zip
and should show up with a search at an archie site or another.
it includes pc2unix and unix2pc code.
I compiled it on my system and it works fine so far, I don't think I've
tried any files with other control characters besides ^M, but it's worked
fine for everything else.

After compiling the code and doing chmod on it, you use it like a filter

pc2unix < text.dos > text.unix
or
cat text.unix | unix2pc > text.dos

i.e. just send text to it and redirect its output to a file somewhere.

I don't do programming yet so I was plenty satisfied with getting it to
work using the instructions that came with it.

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