How to convert the ^M linebreak to 'normal' linebreak in a file opened in vim?
VimLine BreaksVim Problem Overview
vim shows on every line ending ^M
How I do to replace this with a 'normal' linebreak?
Vim Solutions
Solution 1 - Vim
Command
:%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>/\r/g
Where <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M> means type Ctrl+V then Ctrl+M.
Explanation
:%s
substitute, % = all lines
<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>
^M characters (the Ctrl-V is a Vim way of writing the Ctrl ^ character and Ctrl-M writes the M after the regular expression, resulting to ^M special character)
/\r/
with new line (\r)
g
And do it globally (not just the first occurrence on the line).
Solution 2 - Vim
On Linux and Mac OS, the following works,
:%s/^V^M/^V^M/g
where ^V^M means type Ctrl+V, then Ctrl+M.
Note: on Windows you probably want to use ^Q instead of ^V, since by default ^V is mapped to paste text.
Solution 3 - Vim
Within vim, look at the file format — DOS or Unix:
:set filetype=unix
:set fileformat=unix
The file will be written back without carriage return (CR, ^M) characters.
Solution 4 - Vim
This is the only thing that worked for me:
> :e ++ff=dos
Found it at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format
Solution 5 - Vim
A file I had created with BBEdit seen in MacVim was displaying a bunch of ^M line returns instead of regular ones. The following string replace solved the issue - hope this helps:
:%s/\r/\r/g
It's interesting because I'm replacing line breaks with the same character, but I suppose Vim just needs to get a fresh \r to display correctly. I'd be interested to know the underlying mechanics of why this works.
Solution 6 - Vim
First, use :set ff? to figure out the file format your file is.
I guess it could be unix, then the problem is your file was created with fileformat=dos adding "^M^J" to the line end but read with flieformat=unix only removing the "^J" from the line end, leaving the "^M" there.
Just input :e ++ff=dos in Vim command line to change your file's format from unix to dos. It should solve the problem. If not, :%s/\r//g should help you out.
Solution 7 - Vim
in order to get the ^M character to match I had to visually select it and then use the OS copy to clipboard command to retrieve it. You can test it by doing a search for the character before trying the replace command.
/^M
should select the first bad line
:%s/^M/\r/g
will replace all the errant ^M with carriage returns.
This is as functions in MacVim, which is based on gvim 7.
EDIT:
Having this problem again on my Windows 10 machine, which has Ubuntu for Windows, and I think this is causing fileformat issues for vim. In this case changing the ff to unix, mac, or dos did nothing other than to change the ^M to ^J and back again.
The solution in this case:
:%s/\r$/ /g
:%s/ $//g
The reason I went this route is because I wanted to ensure I was being non-destructive with my file. I could have :%s/\r$//g but that would have deleted the carriage returns right out, and could have had unexpected results. Instead we convert the singular CR character, here a ^M character, into a space, and then remove all spaces at the end of lines (which for me is a desirable result regardless)
Sorry for reviving an old question that has long since been answered, but there seemed to be some confusion afoot and I thought I'd help clear some of that up since this is coming up high in google searches.
Solution 8 - Vim
None of these worked for me, so I tried this, which worked:
type :%s/
press CTRL-VCTRL-M
type //g
press Enter
So the overall command in Vim shoud look like :%s/^M//g
What this does: :%s (find and replace) /^M/ (that symbol) / (with no chars) g (globally).
Solution 9 - Vim
^M is retrieved by Ctrl+V and M, so do
s/^M//g
Solution 10 - Vim
Without needing to use Ctrl:
:%s/\r$//
Solution 11 - Vim
Simple thing that worked for me
dos2unix filename
Solution 12 - Vim
I did this with sed:
sed -i -e 's/\r/\n/g' filename
Solution 13 - Vim
What about just:
:%s/\r//g
That totally worked for me.
What this does is just to clean the end of line of all lines, it removes the ^M and that's it.
Solution 14 - Vim
There are many other answers to this question, but still, the following works best for me, as I needed a command line solution:
vim -u NONE -c 'e ++ff=dos' -c 'w ++ff=unix' -c q myfile
Explanation:
- Without loading any .vimrc files, open
myfile - Run
:e ++ff=dosto force a reload of the entire file as dos line endings. - Run
:w ++ff=unixto write the file using unix line endings - Quit vim
Solution 15 - Vim
Ctrl+M minimizes my window, but Ctrl+Enter actually inserts a ^M character. I also had to be sure not to lift off the Ctrl key between presses.
So the solution for me was:
:%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Enter>/\r/g
Where <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Enter> means to press and hold Ctrl, press and release V, press and release Enter, and then release Ctrl.
If you are working on a Windows-generated file
The above solution will add an additional line between existing lines, because there is already an invisible \r after the ^M.
To prevent this, you want to delete the ^M characters without replacing them.
:%s/<Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Enter>//g
Where % means "in this buffer," s means "substitute," / means "(find) the following pattern," <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Enter> refers to the keys to press to get the ^M character (see above), // means "with nothing" (or, "with the pattern between these two slashes, which is empty"), and g is a flag meaning "globally," as opposed to the first occurrence in a line.
Solution 16 - Vim
This worked for me:
- Set file format to unix (
\nline ending) - save the file
So in vim:
:set ff=unix
:w
Solution 17 - Vim
In my case,
Nothing above worked, I had a CSV file copied to Linux machine from my mac and I used all the above commands but nothing helped but the below one
tr "\015" "\n" < inputfile > outputfile
I had a file in which ^M characters were sandwitched between lines something like below
Audi,A4,35 TFSi Premium,,CAAUA4TP^MB01BNKT6TG,TRO_WBFB_500,Trico,CARS,Audi,A4,35 TFSi Premium,,CAAUA4TP^MB01BNKTG0A,TRO_WB_T500,Trico,
Solution 18 - Vim
Alternatively, there are open-source utilities called dos2unix and unix2dos available that do this very thing. On a linux system they are probably installed by default; for a windows system you can download them from http://www.bastet.com/ amongst others.
Solution 19 - Vim
sed s/^M//g file1.txt > file2.txt
where ^M is typed by simultaneously pressing the 3 keys, ctrl + v + m
Solution 20 - Vim
use dos2unix utility if the file was created on windows, use mac2unix utility if the file was created on mac. :)
Solution 21 - Vim
Use one of these commands:
:%s/\r//g
Or
:%s/\r\(\n\)/\1/g
Solution 22 - Vim
To save keystrokes, you can avoid typing Ctrl+VCtrl+M by placing this in a mapping. Just open a file containing a ^M character, yank it, and paste it into a line like this in your .vimrc:
nnoremap <Leader>d :%s/^M//g<CR>
Solution 23 - Vim
This worked for me:
:% s/\r\n/\r
Solution 24 - Vim
To use sed on MacOS, do this:
sed -i.bak $'s/\r//' <filename>
Explanation: The $'STRING' syntax here pertains to the bash shell. Macs don't treat \r as special character. By quoting the command string in $'' you're telling the shell to replace \r with the actual \r character specified in the ANSI-C standard.
Solution 25 - Vim
In command mode in VIM:
:e ++ff=dos | setl ff=unix | up
e ++ff=dos - force open file in dos format.
setl ff=unix - convert file to unix format.
up - save file only when has been modified.
Solution 26 - Vim
None of these suggestions were working for me having managed to get a load of ^M line breaks while working with both vim and eclipse. I suspect that I encountered an outside case but in case it helps anyone I did.
:%s/.$//g
And it sorted out my problem
Solution 27 - Vim
:g/^M/s// /g
If you type ^M using Shift+6 Caps+M it won't accept.
You need to type ctrl+v ctrl+m.
Solution 28 - Vim
^M gives unwanted line breaks. To handle this we can use the sed command as follows:
sed 's/\r//g'
Solution 29 - Vim
Just removeset binary in your .vimrc!
Solution 30 - Vim
On Solaris:
> :%s/
that is:
> :%s/^M//g
That means:
- % = all lines,
- s = substitute,
- ^M = what you desire to substitute
- // = replace with nothing
- g = globally (not only the first occurrance)
Solution 31 - Vim
" This function preserves the list of jumps
fun! Dos2unixFunction()
let _s=@/
let l = line(".")
let c = col(".")
try
set ff=unix
w!
"%s/\%x0d$//e
catch /E32:/
echo "Sorry, the file is not saved."
endtry
let @/=_s
call cursor(l, c)
endfun
com! Dos2Unix keepjumps call Dos2unixFunction()
Solution 32 - Vim
I've spent an afternoon struggling with \n ctrl-v 012 (both of which supply me with null). & laboured through this thread until I reached metagrapher's.
\r worked fine for me!
/),/s/),/)\r/g
turned something like this:
>blacklist-extra:i386 (0.4.1, 0.4.1+nmu1), libmount1:i386 (2.20.1-5.1, 2.20.1 -5.2), libblkid1:i386 (2.20.1-5.1, 2.20.1-5.2), libapt-pkg4.12:i386 (0.9.7.4 , 0.9.7.5), nmap:i386 (6.00-0.1, 6.00-0.2), libsane-common:i386 (1.0.22-7.3,
into something like this:
> 26 libwv-1.2-4:i386 (1.2.9-3, automatic)
> 27 openjdk-6-jre-headless:i386 (6b24-1.11.4-3, automatic)
> 28 jed:i386 (0.99.19-2.1)
Magic. I am profoundly grateful
Solution 33 - Vim
Or instead of using vim you can just fix the line breaks using this command
fromdos <filename.txt>
Hope it helps!
Solution 34 - Vim
None of the above worked for me. (substitution on \r, ^M, ctrl-v-ctrl-m ) I used copy and paste to paste my text into a new file.
If you have macros that interfere, you can try :set paste before the paste operation and :set nopaste after.
Solution 35 - Vim
In vim, use command:
> :%s/\r\n/\r/g
Where you want to search and replace: > \r\n
into > \r
and the > /g
is for global
Note that this is the same as the answer by @ContextSwitch but with the gobal flag
Solution 36 - Vim
Over a serial console all the vi and sed solutions didn't work for me. I had to:
cat inputfilename | tr -d '\r' > outputfilename
Solution 37 - Vim
When in windows, try :%s/<C-Q><C-M>/g