Convert DOS line endings to Linux line endings in Vim

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Bert Hekman picture Bert Hekman · Sep 17, 2008 · Viewed 573.2k times · Source

If I open files I created in Windows, the lines all end with ^M. How do I delete these characters all at once?

Answer

pjz picture pjz · Sep 17, 2008

dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this, or :%s/^M//g will if you use Ctrl-v Ctrl-m to input the ^M, or you can :set ff=unix and Vim will do it for you.

There is documentation on the fileformat setting, and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions.

Alternately, if you move files back and forth a lot, you might not want to convert them, but rather to do :set ff=dos, so Vim will know it's a DOS file and use DOS conventions for line endings.

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