Vi substitution question?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 4 Apr 2000, at 11:04, Phil Buckley wrote:

> I just had a windows guy muck up a perl file and now each line ends with the dreaded "^M".
> 
> My problem is I try to run :1,$s/^M//g but it doesn't seem to see the 
^M's, is there a key combo I should be using besides the carrot on top of 
my 6 key to put in that "^" ?
I can't answer the question in the vi context off the top of my head, but it 
is easy in emacs, just do a regular expression match. ControlQ allows 
you to quote another control character. 

In vi, possibly:
:s/\0d$//
There are also several instances of programs, called dos2unix which do 
this. 


Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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