On a similar note, the other day I had a postscript file with an embedded pixmap graphic which contained line breaks represented only as "\r", in addition to the usual DOS "\r\n" at the end of each line. The graphic with the \r's came up, in Unix, as a single over-900K line, which broke most programs I tried to use to manipulate the file (those programs were not written in Perl, clearly :-)

So based on this snippet, I came up with the following one-liner: 

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n?/\n/g' <i>file</i>

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which solved my problem.

In reply to RE: Remove the ^M Character from a Document by ZZamboni
in thread Remove the ^M Character from a Document by chromatic

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