If you copy a file created or modified in Windows or DOS to a Linux/Unix file system, you sometimes find ^M characters at the end of each line.
Here are steps to remove the ^M characters from a file called trashnotes.txt
.
RANDOM NOTES 1. Put trash in the trash can. 2. Close the lid. 3. Take the trash can outside. LINES
dos2unix
Using the utility dos2unix
you can get rid of the ^M.
dos2unix trashnotes.txt
When you run that command, trashnotes.txt
will be stripped of its ^M characters.
On some computers that doesn't work, so you can do something like this:
dos2unix trashnotes.txt > trashnotes2.txt
Remove Ctrl+M using emacs editor
Open trashnotes.txt in emacs and do this:
ALT+Xreplace-stringENTER CTRL+Q CTRL+MENTERENTER
Remove Ctrl+M using vi editor
Open trashnotes.txt in vi and do this:
ESC:%s/^M//g
You get the above ^M by pressing Ctrl V followed by Ctrl M
Adding ^M to end of lines in file
For some weird reason, if you want to add ^M, add the code \r\n to the end of the line.
Here's a Perl script that demonstrates it.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $lines = << LINES; RANDOM NOTES 1. Put trash in the trash can. 2. Close the lid. 3. Take the trash can outside. LINES foreach (split/\n/, $lines) { print; print "\15\r\n"; }
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