Remove carriage return '\r' character in many files, without looping and intermediary files 

recode pc..l1 file1 file2 file3

March 31, 2012 — Anon8MaLEqEp

Explanation

The recode utility installed on many systems converts between character sets. This command is shorthand for recode IBM-PC..latin1 file1 file2 file3 which converts the given files from CRLF to LF line endings.

text-processing file-manipulation

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Remove carriage return '\r' character in many files, without looping and intermediary files 

vi +'bufdo set ff=unix' +'bufdo %s/^M$//' +q file1 file2 file3

March 30, 2012 — bashoneliners