Re: automatically deleting ^M on text files

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

t s a d i <ch4di@yahoo.com> writes:

>     i have a truckload oftext files (.html) that i need to edit and it
> has the character "^M" all over it (caused when someone uploads a text
> file and the ftp transfer is set to binary).
> 
>     does anyone know of a way to automate this ?

At your shell prompt do:

  for file in *; do
    mv $file $file.old
    tr -d '\015' < $file.old > $file && rm $file.old
  done

The '\015' is octal for CTRL-M (^M).

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development