I have a file that at some point I removed all ^Ms and now I'm trying to put a newline return where the ^Ms used to be.
I probably removed the ^Ms a few years ago in Linux or SCO Xenix and now I'm using a MAC.
With the file opened with vi I have tried the following:
:%s/\.[A-Z]/\.^N[A-Z]/g
I'm entering the ^N as ctrl-V ctrl-N and the /g is because as the file stands now I have 2 really long lines.
The results I'm getting are just the literal ^N[A-Z].
I could be wrong, but on unix machines (like the Mac 
) the line endings (newline character) are generally referenced in regular expressions as "\n".
yes?
Not being a vi guy, I do not know if regular expressions are handled the same way there...
without having to go to vi editor, you cud just use use
sed 's/.*$/&\^N/g' filename > outfile
or inside vi, u cud do
:1,$s/.*$/&\^N/g
cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam
the up carrot M is the Microsoft equiv to carriage return.
if they are appearing in the document or file its because they were either created or modified in MS Notepad or WordPad
I haven't seen them actually impacting or impair the operation, so I ignore them.
In Linux, the simplest way to get rid of those funnies is using dos2unix command. No idea if something similar exists in OS X
I've been using this to remove the annoying ^M from dos files:
col -bx <dosfile> newfile
and I'm pretty sure it works under OS X.
al
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