how to remove ^m symbol

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I need to compile Qt under Debian 64-bit. I downloaded sources but there is ^M symbol everywhere in every file in the end of lines and bash doesnt run configure script. How to remove it from all files in qt sources? Thanks.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '12 at 12:12

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use dos2unix - it will convert your file to unix newline syntax

answered Oct 25 '12 at 12:12

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '12 at 15:03

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Yes, use dos2unix. Note that ^M is a carriage return, also denoted as \r. Another way to remove them is

sed -i 's/\r$//' file ...

answered Oct 25 '12 at 15:03

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how to remove ^m symbol

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