in reply to can't see ^M to process.

In vi, or at least vim, you should be able to issue the following command in command mode to remove them. 
:%s/^M//g

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Where ^M is entered by hitting CTRL-V then CTRL-M (you'll see it shows up the same as the offending ^M's) Often systems will also have a dos2unix command. (others above have pointed out how to remove them using perl)

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Re^2: can't see ^M to process.
by Codon (Friar) on Jul 19, 2005 at 16:20 UTC

    Even better for vim: 

    :set ff=unix

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    Ivan Heffner
    Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead
    WhitePages.com, Inc.
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      Thanks all. :)
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