Re: removing ^M from a text file
Hi,
Try
$cat file | col -b > file.plain.txt
This is also great way to transform man output to plain text.
$ man date | col -b > man.date.txt
Hope this helps,
Bye, nram nram@nram.virtualAve.net
+-----------------------------------------------------+
|Linux Now | Ramesh Natarajan |
|http://www.kernel.org | http://nram.virtualAve.net |
+-----------------------------------------------------+
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
_______________________________________________________
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture
available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people
want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
-- Clive Barnes
---Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and
> > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of
> > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried
> > catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you
> > suggest anything, please?
> >
> > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM.
>
> recode ibm-pc:l1 <original file> newfile
>
> Johann
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 |
> | jhspies@futurenet.co.za 3201 Pietermaritzburg |
> | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) |
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
> courts with praise. Be thankful unto him, and bless
> his name." Psalms 100:4
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org <
/dev/null
>
>
_________________________________________________________
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Reply to: