If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M.
How do I delete these characters all at once?
If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M
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If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M.
How do I delete these characters all at once?
dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this.
In Vim,
:%s/^M//gwill if you use Ctrl–v Ctrl–m to input the ^M (On Windows, use Ctrl–q Ctrl-m instead).Vim may not show the
^Mcharacters if the file is loaded with ados(Windows) file format. In this case you can:set ff=unixand then save the file with:wor:w!and Vim will reformat the file as it saves 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.