Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim

Question

If I open files I created in Windows  the lines all end with  M  How do I delete these characters all at once

User · Answer

Convert directory of files from DOS to Unix

Using command line and sed, find all files in current directory with the extension ".ext" and remove all "^M"

@ https://gist.github.com/sparkida/7773170

find $(pwd) -type f -name "*.ext" | while read file; do sed -e 's/^M//g' -i "$file"; done;

Also, as mentioned in a previous answer, ^M = Ctrl+V + Ctrl+M (don't just type the caret "^" symbol and M).

User · Answer

I found a very easy way  Open the file with nano  nano file txt Press Ctrl   O to save  but before pressing Enter  press  Alt D to toggle between DOS and Unix Linux line-endings  or  Alt M to toggle between Mac and Unix Linux line-endings  and then press Enter to save and Ctrl X to quit

User · Answer

If you create a file in Notepad or Notepad   in Windows  bring it to Linux  and open it by Vim  you will see  M at the end of each line  To remove this  At your Linux terminal  type dos2unix filename ext  This will do the required magic

User · Answer

The comment about getting the  M to appear is what worked for me  Merely typing   M  in my vi got nothing  not found   The CTRL V CTRL M sequence did it perfectly though   My working substitution command was    s Ctrl-V Ctrl-M  r g   and it looked like this on my screen     s  M  r g

User · Answer

To run directly in a Linux console  vim file txt   quot set ff unix quot   wq

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

In Vim  type   w  dos2unix    This will pipe the contents of your current buffer to the dos2unix command and write the results over the current contents  Vim will ask to reload the file after

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

tr -d   15 32   lt  winfile txt  gt  unixfile txt   See  Convert between Unix and Windows text files

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

In Vim  type   w  dos2unix    This will pipe the contents of your current buffer to the dos2unix command and write the results over the current contents  Vim will ask to reload the file after

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

The below command is used for reformating all  sh file in the current directory  I tested it on my Fedora OS  for file in   sh  do awk    sub  quot  r  quot    quot  quot    print     file  gt luxubutmp  cp -f luxubutmp  file  rm -f luxubutmp  done

User · Answer

I knew I d seen this somewhere  Here is the FreeBSD login tip  Do you need to remove all those  M characters from a DOS file  Try tr -d   r  lt  dosfile  gt  newfile     -- Originally by Dru  lt genesis istar ca gt

User · Answer

tr -d   15 32   lt  winfile txt  gt  unixfile txt   See  Convert between Unix and Windows text files

User · Answer

I knew I d seen this somewhere  Here is the FreeBSD login tip  Do you need to remove all those  M characters from a DOS file  Try tr -d   r  lt  dosfile  gt  newfile     -- Originally by Dru  lt genesis istar ca gt

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

To run directly in a Linux console  vim file txt   quot set ff unix quot   wq

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

In VIM   e   ff dos   set ff unix   w   In shell with VIM  vim some file txt   e   ff dos   set ff unix   wq    e   ff dos - force open file in dos format  set ff unix - convert file to unix format

User · Answer

In VIM   e   ff dos   set ff unix   w   In shell with VIM  vim some file txt   e   ff dos   set ff unix   wq    e   ff dos - force open file in dos format  set ff unix - convert file to unix format

User · Answer

The comment about getting the  M to appear is what worked for me  Merely typing   M  in my vi got nothing  not found   The CTRL V CTRL M sequence did it perfectly though   My working substitution command was    s Ctrl-V Ctrl-M  r g   and it looked like this on my screen     s  M  r g

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

I found a very easy way  Open the file with nano  nano file txt Press Ctrl   O to save  but before pressing Enter  press  Alt D to toggle between DOS and Unix Linux line-endings  or  Alt M to toggle between Mac and Unix Linux line-endings  and then press Enter to save and Ctrl X to quit

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

The below command is used for reformating all  sh file in the current directory  I tested it on my Fedora OS  for file in   sh  do awk    sub  quot  r  quot    quot  quot    print     file  gt luxubutmp  cp -f luxubutmp  file  rm -f luxubutmp  done

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

If you create a file in Notepad or Notepad   in Windows  bring it to Linux  and open it by Vim  you will see  M at the end of each line  To remove this  At your Linux terminal  type dos2unix filename ext  This will do the required magic

User · Answer

I knew I d seen this somewhere  Here is the FreeBSD login tip  Do you need to remove all those  M characters from a DOS file  Try tr -d   r  lt  dosfile  gt  newfile     -- Originally by Dru  lt genesis istar ca gt

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

You can use  vim somefile txt   quot  s  r  r g quot   wq  Or the dos2unix utility

User · Answer

This is my way  I opened a file in DOS EOL and when I save the file  that will automatically convert to Unix EOL  autocmd BufWrite    set ff unix

User · Answer

This is my way  I opened a file in DOS EOL and when I save the file  that will automatically convert to Unix EOL  autocmd BufWrite    set ff unix

User · Answer

If you create a file in Notepad or Notepad   in Windows  bring it to Linux  and open it by Vim  you will see  M at the end of each line  To remove this  At your Linux terminal  type dos2unix filename ext  This will do the required magic

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

I wanted newlines in place of the  M s  Perl to the rescue   perl -pi bak -e  s  x0d  n g  excel created txt   Or to write to stdout   perl -p -e  s  x0d  n g   lt  excel created txt

User · Answer

In Vim  type   w  dos2unix    This will pipe the contents of your current buffer to the dos2unix command and write the results over the current contents  Vim will ask to reload the file after

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

I typically use   s  r  r g  which seems a little odd  but works because of the way that Vim matches linefeeds  I also find it easier to remember

User · Answer

I typically use   s  r  r g  which seems a little odd  but works because of the way that Vim matches linefeeds  I also find it easier to remember

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

To run directly in a Linux console  vim file txt   quot set ff unix quot   wq

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

The following steps can convert the file format for DOS to Unix   e   ff dos     Edit file again  using dos file format   fileformats  is ignored   A 1   setlocal ff unix     This buffer will use LF-only line endings when written  A 2   w     Write buffer using Unix  LF-only  line endings   Reference  File format

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

The below command is used for reformating all  sh file in the current directory  I tested it on my Fedora OS  for file in   sh  do awk    sub  quot  r  quot    quot  quot    print     file  gt luxubutmp  cp -f luxubutmp  file  rm -f luxubutmp  done

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

I found a very easy way  Open the file with nano  nano file txt Press Ctrl   O to save  but before pressing Enter  press  Alt D to toggle between DOS and Unix Linux line-endings  or  Alt M to toggle between Mac and Unix Linux line-endings  and then press Enter to save and Ctrl X to quit

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

This is my way  I opened a file in DOS EOL and when I save the file  that will automatically convert to Unix EOL  autocmd BufWrite    set ff unix

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

dos2unix can directly modify the file contents  You can directly use it on the file  without any need for temporary file redirection  dos2unix input txt input txt  The above uses the assumed US keyboard  Use the -437 option to use the UK keyboard  dos2unix -437 input txt input txt

User · Answer

In VIM   e   ff dos   set ff unix   w   In shell with VIM  vim some file txt   e   ff dos   set ff unix   wq    e   ff dos - force open file in dos format  set ff unix - convert file to unix format

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

I found a very easy way  Open the file with nano  nano file txt Press Ctrl   O to save  but before pressing Enter  press  Alt D to toggle between DOS and Unix Linux line-endings  or  Alt M to toggle between Mac and Unix Linux line-endings  and then press Enter to save and Ctrl X to quit

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

I typically use   s  r  r g  which seems a little odd  but works because of the way that Vim matches linefeeds  I also find it easier to remember

User · Answer

Convert directory of files from DOS to Unix

Using command line and sed, find all files in current directory with the extension ".ext" and remove all "^M"

@ https://gist.github.com/sparkida/7773170

find $(pwd) -type f -name "*.ext" | while read file; do sed -e 's/^M//g' -i "$file"; done;

Also, as mentioned in a previous answer, ^M = Ctrl+V + Ctrl+M (don't just type the caret "^" symbol and M).

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

I wanted newlines in place of the  M s  Perl to the rescue   perl -pi bak -e  s  x0d  n g  excel created txt   Or to write to stdout   perl -p -e  s  x0d  n g   lt  excel created txt

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

From Wikia   s  r     g  That will find all carriage return signs  one and more reps  up to the end of line and delete  so just  n will stay at EOL

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

Usually there is a dos2unix command you can use for this  Just make sure you read the manual as the GNU and BSD versions differ on how they deal with the arguments  BSD version  dos2unix  FILENAME  FILENAME OUT mv  FILENAME OUT  FILENAME  GNU version  dos2unix  FILENAME  Alternatively  you can create your own dos2unix with any of the proposed answers here  for example  function dos2unix           quot      quot     amp  amp    -f  quot   1  quot       return 1         echo   set ff unix         echo   wq           vim  quot   1  quot

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

Usually there is a dos2unix command you can use for this  Just make sure you read the manual as the GNU and BSD versions differ on how they deal with the arguments  BSD version  dos2unix  FILENAME  FILENAME OUT mv  FILENAME OUT  FILENAME  GNU version  dos2unix  FILENAME  Alternatively  you can create your own dos2unix with any of the proposed answers here  for example  function dos2unix           quot      quot     amp  amp    -f  quot   1  quot       return 1         echo   set ff unix         echo   wq           vim  quot   1  quot

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

Usually there is a dos2unix command you can use for this  Just make sure you read the manual as the GNU and BSD versions differ on how they deal with the arguments  BSD version  dos2unix  FILENAME  FILENAME OUT mv  FILENAME OUT  FILENAME  GNU version  dos2unix  FILENAME  Alternatively  you can create your own dos2unix with any of the proposed answers here  for example  function dos2unix           quot      quot     amp  amp    -f  quot   1  quot       return 1         echo   set ff unix         echo   wq           vim  quot   1  quot

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

You can use  vim somefile txt   quot  s  r  r g quot   wq  Or the dos2unix utility

User · Answer

dos2unix can directly modify the file contents  You can directly use it on the file  without any need for temporary file redirection  dos2unix input txt input txt  The above uses the assumed US keyboard  Use the -437 option to use the UK keyboard  dos2unix -437 input txt input txt

User · Answer

Change the line endings in the view    e   ff dos  e   ff mac  e   ff unix   This can also be used as saving operation   w alone will not save using the line endings you see on screen     w   ff dos  w   ff mac  w   ff unix   And you can use it from the command-line   for file in   cpp do      vi    w   ff unix     q    file  done

User · Answer

The below command is used for reformating all  sh file in the current directory  I tested it on my Fedora OS  for file in   sh  do awk    sub  quot  r  quot    quot  quot    print     file  gt luxubutmp  cp -f luxubutmp  file  rm -f luxubutmp  done

User · Answer

You can use  vim somefile txt   quot  s  r  r g quot   wq  Or the dos2unix utility

User · Answer

To run directly in a Linux console  vim file txt   quot set ff unix quot   wq

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

In VIM   e   ff dos   set ff unix   w   In shell with VIM  vim some file txt   e   ff dos   set ff unix   wq    e   ff dos - force open file in dos format  set ff unix - convert file to unix format

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

This is my way  I opened a file in DOS EOL and when I save the file  that will automatically convert to Unix EOL  autocmd BufWrite    set ff unix

User · Answer

I prefer to use the following command   set fileformat unix  You can also use mac or dos to respectively convert your file to Mac or MS-DOS Windows file convention  And it does nothing if the file is already in the correct format  For more information  see the Vim help   help fileformat

User · Answer

The comment about getting the  M to appear is what worked for me  Merely typing   M  in my vi got nothing  not found   The CTRL V CTRL M sequence did it perfectly though   My working substitution command was    s Ctrl-V Ctrl-M  r g   and it looked like this on my screen     s  M  r g

User · Answer

I wanted newlines in place of the  M s  Perl to the rescue   perl -pi bak -e  s  x0d  n g  excel created txt   Or to write to stdout   perl -p -e  s  x0d  n g   lt  excel created txt

User · Answer

If you create a file in Notepad or Notepad   in Windows  bring it to Linux  and open it by Vim  you will see  M at the end of each line  To remove this  At your Linux terminal  type dos2unix filename ext  This will do the required magic

User · Answer

Convert directory of files from DOS to Unix

Using command line and sed, find all files in current directory with the extension ".ext" and remove all "^M"

@ https://gist.github.com/sparkida/7773170

find $(pwd) -type f -name "*.ext" | while read file; do sed -e 's/^M//g' -i "$file"; done;

Also, as mentioned in a previous answer, ^M = Ctrl+V + Ctrl+M (don't just type the caret "^" symbol and M).

User · Answer

I typically use   s  r  r g  which seems a little odd  but works because of the way that Vim matches linefeeds  I also find it easier to remember

User · Answer

You can use  vim somefile txt   quot  s  r  r g quot   wq  Or the dos2unix utility

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

The following steps can convert the file format for DOS to Unix   e   ff dos     Edit file again  using dos file format   fileformats  is ignored   A 1   setlocal ff unix     This buffer will use LF-only line endings when written  A 2   w     Write buffer using Unix  LF-only  line endings   Reference  File format

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

From  File format  Esc    s  r

User · Answer

The following steps can convert the file format for DOS to Unix   e   ff dos     Edit file again  using dos file format   fileformats  is ignored   A 1   setlocal ff unix     This buffer will use LF-only line endings when written  A 2   w     Write buffer using Unix  LF-only  line endings   Reference  File format

User · Answer

From Wikia   s  r     g  That will find all carriage return signs  one and more reps  up to the end of line and delete  so just  n will stay at EOL

User · Answer

dos2unix can directly modify the file contents  You can directly use it on the file  without any need for temporary file redirection  dos2unix input txt input txt  The above uses the assumed US keyboard  Use the -437 option to use the UK keyboard  dos2unix -437 input txt input txt

User · Answer

From Wikia   s  r     g  That will find all carriage return signs  one and more reps  up to the end of line and delete  so just  n will stay at EOL

User · Answer

tr -d   15 32   lt  winfile txt  gt  unixfile txt   See  Convert between Unix and Windows text files

User · Answer

I knew I d seen this somewhere  Here is the FreeBSD login tip  Do you need to remove all those  M characters from a DOS file  Try tr -d   r  lt  dosfile  gt  newfile     -- Originally by Dru  lt genesis istar ca gt

User · Answer

tr -d   15 32   lt  winfile txt  gt  unixfile txt   See  Convert between Unix and Windows text files

User · Answer

From Wikia   s  r     g  That will find all carriage return signs  one and more reps  up to the end of line and delete  so just  n will stay at EOL

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

You can use the following command    s  V M  g  where the     means use CTRL key

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

Usually there is a dos2unix command you can use for this  Just make sure you read the manual as the GNU and BSD versions differ on how they deal with the arguments  BSD version  dos2unix  FILENAME  FILENAME OUT mv  FILENAME OUT  FILENAME  GNU version  dos2unix  FILENAME  Alternatively  you can create your own dos2unix with any of the proposed answers here  for example  function dos2unix           quot      quot     amp  amp    -f  quot   1  quot       return 1         echo   set ff unix         echo   wq           vim  quot   1  quot

User · Answer

Convert directory of files from DOS to Unix

Using command line and sed, find all files in current directory with the extension ".ext" and remove all "^M"

@ https://gist.github.com/sparkida/7773170

find $(pwd) -type f -name "*.ext" | while read file; do sed -e 's/^M//g' -i "$file"; done;

Also, as mentioned in a previous answer, ^M = Ctrl+V + Ctrl+M (don't just type the caret "^" symbol and M).

User · Answer

g Ctrl-v Ctrl-m s     CtrlM is the character  r  or carriage return  which DOS line endings add  CtrlV tells Vim to insert a literal CtrlM character at the command line  Taken as a whole  this command replaces all  r with nothing  removing them from the ends of lines

User · Answer

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this  or   s  M  g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the  M  or you can  set ff unix and Vim will do it for you  There is documentation on the fileformat setting  and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions  Alternately  if you move files back and forth a lot  you might not want to convert them  but rather to do  set ff dos  so Vim will know it s a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

I wanted newlines in place of the  M s  Perl to the rescue   perl -pi bak -e  s  x0d  n g  excel created txt   Or to write to stdout   perl -p -e  s  x0d  n g   lt  excel created txt

User · Answer

In Vim  type   w  dos2unix    This will pipe the contents of your current buffer to the dos2unix command and write the results over the current contents  Vim will ask to reload the file after

User · Answer

With the following command    s  M   g  To get the  M to appear  type CtrlV and then CtrlM   CtrlV tells Vim to take the next character entered literally

User · Answer

The comment about getting the  M to appear is what worked for me  Merely typing   M  in my vi got nothing  not found   The CTRL V CTRL M sequence did it perfectly though   My working substitution command was    s Ctrl-V Ctrl-M  r g   and it looked like this on my screen     s  M  r g

User · Answer

s  r    g  In Vim  that strips all carriage returns  and leaves only newlines

User · Answer

set fileformat unix to convert from DOS to Unix

User · Answer

The following steps can convert the file format for DOS to Unix   e   ff dos     Edit file again  using dos file format   fileformats  is ignored   A 1   setlocal ff unix     This buffer will use LF-only line endings when written  A 2   w     Write buffer using Unix  LF-only  line endings   Reference  File format

User · Answer

dos2unix can directly modify the file contents  You can directly use it on the file  without any need for temporary file redirection  dos2unix input txt input txt  The above uses the assumed US keyboard  Use the -437 option to use the UK keyboard  dos2unix -437 input txt input txt

[linux] Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim

Convert directory of files from DOS to Unix

Using command line and sed, find all files in current directory with the extension ".ext" and remove all "^M"

Examples related to linux

Examples related to vim

Examples related to file

Examples related to editor

Examples related to dos2unix