Pieter, To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, use:
:%s/^V^M//g The ^v is a CONTROL-V character and ^m is a CONTROL-M. When you type this, it will look like this: :%s/^M//g -- Calomel @ http://calomel.org Open Source Research and Reference On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: >Hi, > >does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape >sequence) from text files? > >Pieter