====== ^M Appearing after importing files from Windows ======


The ^M is due to Windows and Unix using a different characters for newlines.
Windows' newline character shows up as ^M in UNIX text editors.

You can use the dos2unix command to remove the ^M characters. Simply run

**dos2unix filename > newfilename** 

and what you specified as "newfilename" will contain your file, without the ^M characters.

You can then safely delete the old copy of the file with the ^M's in it.

Or, you can fix it with 'vi'.
(This is useful in cases where you are logged onto a system without dos2unix installed.)

    * Open the file(s) in vi
    * Type the following:

<codebash>ESC :%s/CTRL-VCTRL-M//g
CTRL-V, CTRL-M are CONTROL+V and CONTROL+M</code>
    * This will look like:

      :%s/^M//g,

    * Then just save the file and exit vi.