[lug] Beautify in vi

[Deva Samartha]

John,

it would be more clear if you would post a sample of the stuff you get.

If it's ^M's at the end of the line, it could be DOS formatted text, but 
this does not make sense when going from Linux to BSD. If it is some other 
file containing control characters it's a different issue.

The vi command mentioned here:

%s/<clt-v><ctl-m>//g

substitutes (s) globally (%) the control character CR or '\r' or carriage 
return (<clt-v><ctl-m>) with nothing (//) in multiple occurrences on the 
same line (g).

The <ctl-v> tells vi to take the next character as a literal control 
character and deal with it and got nothing to do with vi's trust. This does 
not work with LF.

man ascii gives you the ascii characters:

        Oct   Dec   Hex   Char           Oct   Dec   Hex   Char
        ------------------------------------------------------------
..
        012   10    0A    LF  '\n'       112   74    4A    J
..
        015   13    0D    CR  '\r'       115   77    4D    M

where you can see the relationship between control characters and printable 
characters.

Samartha

At 03:57 PM 3/29/2001 -0700, you 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
> > > >