[lug] Beautify in vi

[Holshouser, David]

It's slightly more difficult than that in my experience.
:%s/^v^m//g

the ^v says don't look at my next keystroke, just trust me.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Hernandez [SMTP:John.Hernandez at noaa.gov]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:45 PM
> To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject:	Re: [lug] Beautify in vi
> 
> :%s/^M//g
> 
> John Starkey wrote:
> > 
> > I have several files that I transfered from linux to FreeBSD. On the
> > FreeBSD server the command chars are showing up. Mainly ^M. I saw that
> > set: beautify is supposed to clean those out. But it isn't and I found
> > one doc that says it only does so when reading into a file. I tried
> > creating a new file and reading the old one into it. Still no luck.
> > 
> > Anyone know of something I could do to strip these automatically?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John
> > 
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