Comments on: Remove ^M characters at end of lines in vi

By: Manu

Manu — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:42:36 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I am new to vi. I tried removing the ^M character from the file using

sed s/\r//g

but it didn’t work for me. I tried using (ctrl+M) instead of \r but that is also not working. whenever I press Ctrl+M it is taking me to the next line.

I have written down my code like below:
#!/bin/sh

while read line
do
echo “$line” | sed s/[^0-9]//g >> temp
done

By: #dhk

#dhk — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:03:31 +0000

Its works
:%s/[^0-9]$//g

By: raj malhotra

raj malhotra — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:58:17 +0000

Thanks Lopezscu
yours worked and it saved time greatly :)

By: mooselix

mooselix — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:05:32 +0000

Uh, all you need is this. No control-characters, etc.

:%s/\r//g

By: Tamil

Tamil — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:03:48 +0000

Yes, It works fine, I also had the “Pattern Not Found” issue. Please press the following keys to have this function.

1. Type %s
2. press (ctrl + v) = it will give the (^) symbol
3. Press (ctrl + m) = it will give the ^M in blue color.

then add rest of the symbols. It will work.

By: Narsimulu

Narsimulu — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:39:29 +0000

To everyone having the “Pattern not found” message:

Please type control character twice and then type V and M.

“press control, press control, press V, press control,press control, press M”

-Narsimulu

By: jason

jason — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:26:06 +0000

Ok,

For those where :%s/^M//g was not working for them, I have a workaround for you.

I was finding it wasn’t doing the replace, however when I compiled the file I was working on, it was complaining about the ^M which was really annoying.

I can confirm that the following though will work.

cat fileName | sed s/^M//g >tmp

Just move the tmp file back to fileName and you have a file minus the ^M.

By: george

george — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:59:56 +0000

Thanks very much.

By: Cesar

Cesar — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:51:02 +0000

To everyone having the “Pattern not found” message:

You MUST NOT WRITE ^V ^M

^V is: “press control, press V, release V, release control.”
The same with ^M: “press control, press M, release M, release control.”

Sure it will work as sure as you are using vi/vim.

By: nit

nit — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Thanks Lopezscu ,sed version of ur examplecat foo | sed ’s/^M//g’the “cat foo | col -b > foo2″ version in below posts is not working for me