A newline (aka line break or end-of-line, EOL) is special character or character sequence that marks the end of a line of text. The exact codes used vary across operating systems: Operating System End-of-Line (EOL) marker Unix LF Mac OS up to version 9 CR Windows, DOS CR+LF You can use 
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As a command, type :%s/^M$// (To get ^M, press ^V ^M, where ^ is CTRL on most keyboards)
You can use Notepad++. The instructions to convert a directory recursively are as follows: Menu: Search -> Find in Files… Directory = the directory you want to be converted to Unix format, recursively. E.g., C:\MyDir Find what = \r\n Replace with = \n Search Mode = Extended Press “Replace in Files”
With Notepad++, you can show end-of-line characters. It shows CR and LF, instead of “\r” and “\n”, but it gets the point across. However, it will still insert the line breaks. But you do get to see the line-ending characters. To use Notepad++ for this, open the View menu, open the Show Symbols slide out, … Read more
\n is a line feed (LF) character, character code 10. \r is a carriage return (CR) character, character code 13. What they do differs from system to system. On Windows, for instance, lines in text files are terminated using CR followed immediately by LF (e.g., CRLF). On Unix systems and their derivatives, only LF is … Read more
Run following command in terminal sed -i -e ‘s/\r$//’ scriptname.sh Then try ./scriptname.sh It should work.
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 … Read more
GitHub suggests that you should make sure to only use \n as a newline character in git-handled repos. There’s an option to auto-convert: $ git config –global core.autocrlf true Of course, this is said to convert crlf to lf, while you want to convert cr to lf. I hope this still works … And then … Read more
Unix uses 0xA for a newline character. Windows uses a combination of two characters: 0xD 0xA. 0xD is the carriage return character. ^M happens to be the way vim displays 0xD (0x0D = 13, M is the 13th letter in the English alphabet). You can remove all the ^M characters by running the following: :%s/^M//g … Read more
dos2unix is a commandline utility that will do this, or :%s/^M//g will if you use Ctrl–v Ctrl–m to input the ^M, or you can :set ff=unix and Vim will do it for you. There is documentation on the fileformat setting, and the Vim wiki has a comprehensive page on line ending conversions. Alternately, if you … Read more