Linux Explore » dos2unix https://blog.linuxexplore.com Exploring Linux Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:30:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Remove ^M (CTRL+M) from a file in Linux https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/06/22/remove-m-ctrlm-from-a-file-in-linux/ https://blog.linuxexplore.com/2012/06/22/remove-m-ctrlm-from-a-file-in-linux/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:22:11 +0000 http://linuxexplore.wordpress.com/?p=446 Unix and windows file formats are different. Sometime a Unix file which edit in Windows put a special character at the end of each line i.e ^M (CTRL+M). It can make that file useless sometime.

But no worry you can fix that with ease, just follow the procedure given below:

  • Open the file in vim or vi
vi myfile
  • Then press ESC key, and type
:%s/^M//g
  • Remember ^M is a special character which can be generated as given in NOTE.

sed command can also be used for this as follows:

sed 's/^M//g' myfile> newfile

^M is also a special character here.

That’s all, your file is same as last.

NOTE: Hold the control key and then press v and m to get the ^M (CTRL+M) character.

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