From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2001-12-15T08:36:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28554] Re: help with ^M (line endings ) removing


From: "Dinakar Desai" <Desai.Dinakar@mayo.edu>
>
> I have some files that were created in windows. When I use vi  editor
> the line ending shows as ^M. what is the easiest method to remove them.
> Thank you.

ruby -i -pe 'gsub(/\015/, "")' somefile

I think ought to work (I haven't tested it though!!:)

You could combine that with find, ala

find -type f -name "*.txt" -exec ruby -i -pe 'gsub(/\015/, "")' {} \;

for example to process multiple files. .  .


Hope this helps,

Bill