Remove ^M characters from xhtml file

paul beard paulbeard at mac.com
Sun Nov 30 19:07:11 PST 2003


On Nov 30, 2003, at 6:53 PM, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> Another way: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\r$//' *.xhtml
>
> BTW: why is this even an issue that needs a solution? XHTML doesn't 
> care one
> way or the other, since all linear spacing is folded into one space.
>

It's distracting to look at all that stuff if you're editing in vi, for 
example. But for yet one more solution, you can search and replace ^M 
as Control V Control M in vi.

I also use perl -pi "s#\\r#\\n#g" <filename> all the time.
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Paul Beard
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