From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Date: 2001-12-15T09:39:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28564] Re: help with ^M (line endings ) removing

On Saturday 15 December 2001 12:23, Dinakar Desai wrote:
> Hello:
>
> 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.

cat windows_file.txt | tr -d "\015" > unix_file.txt

Is the traditional unix one-liner for this.