On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Michael Wolfrom wrote:

>   My question is: How can a match the ^M at the end of a dos text file
> in a regexp?
>  What I am trying to do is print all the characters up until the ^M (if
> there is one).

\cM is how you can match it on a regexp.  Some people also use \r.

you can do this all on the command-line:

perl -pi.bak -e '/s/\cM//g' <files>

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