Re: [PLUG] Silly Emacs Question

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@netaxs.com>]

> If you edit a file under windows, then edit it under linux (vi or emacs or
> whatever) you'll see those ^M s.  My favorite way of getting rid of them is
> to do
> 
> cat myfile | tr -d '\r' > out

Or:

    tr -d '\r' < myfile > out

Generally speaking, if you find yourself using cat solely for the purpose
of piping a file to stdin of another process, you can use input redirection
("<") instead, to optimize things a bit.

-mct