Re: how to remove ^M character from every line

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

divya wrote:
> A file generated on Windows machine is used on linux m/c while scripting.
> A sample line from the file is as shown:
>
> //-------------------------------------------------------^M
> File name : project_name^M
> .....
>
> Now in the perl script how can I remove ^M without running the command 
> dos2unix.

    perl -pi -e 'y/\015//d' project_name

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