Sounds like you are using a lot of text files from a Micro$oft world.  In
the non-Unix land lines are terminated with ^M^J and in Unix land lines are
terminated with ^J only.

To get rid of ^M's in your text files in the Unix land you can use the
tr program, i.e.:

tr -d "\r" < file.windows.txt > file.unix.txt

Good Luck

Later

Mark Hittinger
b...@pu.net

i edit in vim so i just do

:%s/\r//g

Those are Carriage Returns

you can also do something like this

tr -d '\r' < somefile > somefile.new; mv somefile.new somefile to remove
them if you don't want to pull the file up in vi.

You can also do a search for dos2unix which is a small program to do the
same thing.

Hope that helps,
-Patrick