Re: control-M characters that are NOT end of line characters

[Alan Barrett]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012, James Hartleroad wrote:

But I have a shell script removeCTLM.ksh that has an embedded cntl-m as
part of a regular expression, for example sed 's/^M//g' $file > tmpfile

If this is a shell programming question rather than a subversion
question, then I suggest changing the script to not use an embedded
control-M.  Here are two ways of doing that:

        tr -d '\r' <"$infile" >"$outfile"

        control_M="$(printf '\r')"
        sed -e "s/${control_M}//" <"$infile" >"$outfile"

--apb (Alan Barrett)