Re: inserting carriage return characters
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 01-Jun-2002 Paul E Condon wrote:
> > What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before
> > each line feed (new line) character in a text file?
> >
>
> in other words, make it look like a Windows text file? The sysutils package
> has two utilities -- 'fromdos' which removes ^M and 'todos' which adds them.
or in vi do a search and replace: g:/$/s//^M/g
to produce the ctrl char: ctrl-v, ctrl-m
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