Vi substitution question?

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

	 As a last resort you can always lose those annoying
	 CR characters by filtering the file with tr, thus:
	 
	    tr -d "\015"

And a perl hacker would probably do it this way:
   perl -e 's/\r//g'

There are lots of tools around that will  do  the  job,  if
what you want to do is copy the file.  With perl, you could
also edit a list of files "in place" via something like:
   perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r//g' files...

There's a very similar awk incantation that would work, but
since I haven't used awk in years, I won't attempt it.

(But I still haven't seen how you do it in emacs.  Hey, all
you emacs hackers; stop lurking! ;-)

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