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

By: mhannesy

mhannesy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:04:54 +0000

Ok, I found out why I ended up with the NUL control characters instead. From :help insert:

"If you enter a value of 10, it will end up in the file as a 0. The 10 is a
, which is used internally to represent the character. When writing
the buffer to a file, the character is translated into . The
character is written at the end of each line. Thus if you want to insert a
character in a file you will have to make a line break."

By: Hedi

Hedi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:24:45 +0000

You could try :
echo file | sed 's/r//g'

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:24:27 +0000

You Sir are a genius. I award you five internets!

By: mhannesy

mhannesy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:06:06 +0000

Just curious, :%s/r//g works but :%s/rn/n/g does not, why is that?

By: ucsbliu

ucsbliu — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:24:19 +0000

Thank you, original post did not work for me, but this did.

By: Dmitriy Golub

Dmitriy Golub — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:36:17 +0000

Nice, thank you!

By: awais

awais — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:25:54 +0000

hi,
grt man. it worked for me. keep up the good work.

By: SnowLeopard

SnowLeopard — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:19:42 +0000

Thanks! :D

By: raod

raod — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:51:11 +0000

Thank you very much…for me saved lot of time.

By: Vishal

Vishal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:12:48 +0000

I am trying ti get the diff of a file into a temp.txt file.
When I do :%s/^M//g in my file, it says “Pattern not Found: ^M”.
But when I see the temp.txt file for the diff it shows ^M on all the lines.
Help me out for this, I dont want ^M in temp.txt file