[lug] Beautify in vi

Carlos Hernández López chernanl at banxico.org.mx
Thu Mar 29 18:06:59 MST 2001


Something similar happens when you transfer files from linux to win. Have you tried with todos?

todos < linuxfile.txt > dosfile.txt  and then transfer.





John Hernandez wrote:

> He's right indeed.  Duh.
>
> So, that's <ctrl-v><ctrl-m> between the leaning toothpicks.  The literal carret (^) in a regex means "at the beginning of a line,"
> which is not what you want.
>
> "Holshouser, David" wrote:
> >
> > 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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