Comments on: Getting rid of the ^M characters in vi https://legend.ws/blog/linux/removing-the-m-character-in-vim/ Random tech ramblings Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:28:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: LTC https://legend.ws/blog/linux/removing-the-m-character-in-vim/#comment-39270 LTC Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:40:13 +0000 https://legend.ws/blog/?p=29#comment-39270 s means “substitute” not “search and replace”. And it isn’t nonsense.
Searching, of course, is achieved using with the forward slash / character.

]]> By: admin https://legend.ws/blog/linux/removing-the-m-character-in-vim/#comment-26229 admin Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:20:44 +0000 https://legend.ws/blog/?p=29#comment-26229 cheers

]]> By: Prosthetic Lips https://legend.ws/blog/linux/removing-the-m-character-in-vim/#comment-25873 Prosthetic Lips Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:26:30 +0000 https://legend.ws/blog/?p=29#comment-25873 Um … just a note, your explanation of the $ is wrong.

1,$ means “lines 1 through the end of the file”
s means “search and replace” (or some such nonsense)
g technically means “do it through the whole line” (otherwise it just does the first time it finds it)
the rest of your explanation was spot-on. But, for example, you could say:

3,15s/^M//

to mean, replace all occurrences on lines 3 through 15. The “g” probably doesn’t matter to you, because you only get one per line anyway.

~Prosthetic Lips

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