Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in

Question

If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M.
How do I delete these characters all at once?

Answer 1

:%s/\r+//g

In Vim, that strips all carriage returns, and leaves only newlines.

Answer 2

The comment about getting the ^M to appear is what worked for me. Merely typing "^M" in my vi got nothing (not found). The CTRL+V CTRL+M sequence did it perfectly though.

My working substitution command was

:%s/Ctrl-V Ctrl-M/\r/g

and it looked like this on my screen:

:%s/^M/\r/g

Answer 3

Change the lineendings in the view:

:e ++ff=dos
:e ++ff=mac
:e ++ff=unix

This can also be used as saving operation (:w alone will not save using the lineendings you see on screen):

:w ++ff=dos
:w ++ff=mac
:w ++ff=unix

And you can use it from the command-line:

for file in $(ls *cpp)
do 
  vi +':w ++ff=unix' +':q' ${file}
done

Answer 4

Usually there is a dos2unix command you can use for this, just make sure you read the manual as the GNU and BSD versions differ on how they deal with the arguments.

BSD version:

dos2unix $FILENAME $FILENAME_OUT
mv $FILENAME_OUT $FILENAME

GNU version:

dos2unix $FILENAME

Alternatively, you can create your own dos2unix with any of the proposed answers here, for example:

function dos2unix(){
    [ "${!}" ] && [ -f "{$1}" ] || return 1;

    { echo ':set ff=unix';
      echo ':wq';
    } | vim "${1}";
}

Answer 5

To run directly into linux console: vim file.txt +"set ff=unix" +wq

Answer 6

dos2unix can directly modify the file contents.

You can directly use it on the file, with no need for temporary file redirection.

dos2unix input.txt input.txt

The above uses the assumed US keyboard. Use the -437 option to use the UK keyboard.

dos2unix -437 input.txt input.txt