If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M.
How do I delete these characters all at once?
Linux – Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim
dos2unixeditorfilelinuxvim
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Best Answer
dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this, or
:%s/^M//gwill if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the ^M, or you can:set ff=unixand Vim will do it for you.There is documentation on the fileformat setting, and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions.
Alternately, if you move files back and forth a lot, you might not want to convert them, but rather to do
:set ff=dos, so Vim will know it's a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings.