Deleting dos chars using Vim (^M)

rga Oneliner, Tips, Unix, Windows

Hello,

IF you want to delete dos chars using Vim instead of installing external tools like dos2unix,tr,sed,awk etc.. you can do that using Vim syntax like this:

:set ff=unix //to unix file
:set ff=dos //to windows file

See you!

UPDATE
If you want to do mass conversions, you can use this command lines switches and let vim do the work :)


vim +"set ff=unix" +wq $DOS_FILE

6 thoughts on “Deleting dos chars using Vim (^M)”

  2. Not sure if it’s the version of vim i’m using, but this doesn’t work for me. I still have the ^M char at the end of lines. I’ve just been using :%s/.$// to remove the ^M

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    • Matt, you must be shure that all lines end if ^M otherwise it will remove something that you won’t.

      Using wg method you won’t have this problem.

      Cheers.

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    • Bob, why do you say that? It works indeed

      $ echo “123 check” > test.txt
      $ file test.txt
      test.txt: ASCII text
      $ vim +”set ff=dos” +wq test.txt
      $ file test.txt
      test.txt: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
      $ vim +”set ff=unix” +wq test.txt
      $ file test.txt

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      • Hi Bob,

        Works fine here:

        $ echo “hello” > test.txt
        $ file test.txt
        test.txt: ASCII text
        $ cat -v test.txt
        hello

        $ vim +”set ff=dos” +wq test.txt
        $ file test.txt
        test.txt: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
        $ cat -v test.txt
        hello^M

        $ vim +”set ff=unix” +wq test.txt
        $ file test.txt
        test.txt: ASCII text
        $ cat -v test.txt
        hello

        What is your ouput error?

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