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Fix messy Mac-style line endings to have proper Unix text file format

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 23, 2009 - 7:51am
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In a vi text editor as reached from the command line shell with vi filename.txt or an excellent GUI such as MacVim, enter:

:%s/\r/\r/g

and your file will be beautiful, even if only parts of it were messed up with ^M non-working line breaks.

Thanks to the comment at this post.

Resolution

Searched words: 
vi convert line endings ^M MacVim corrected carrot em characters mashed together in one line CR LF new line right encoding carriage return broken correct M

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