RE: what is ^M at the end of a line?

From: Rob Coops

> That ^M is a line feed, or well the windows version of a line feed.

Actually, it is an ASCII CR or carriage return. Microsoft uses CR/LF for
end of line, where Unixen use just LF. Apple used something else, but
may have changed when they switched to OSX. I used tr to clean it up,
much like dos2unix does. I think the command was:

$ tr "\r\n" "\n" < badfile > goodfile

Bob McConnell