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2008-07-29 03:06:21 UTC |
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Converting line-endings with ViM |
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I got my hands on a file containing OS/X line-endings (\r), which needed to be converted into Unix line-endings (\n).
Normally I would just do a simple search and replace, with:
:%s/\r/\n/g
Oddly enough, this actually gave me null-characters (0x00) instead of the expected \n. After some browsing, this seems to be the correct command:
:%s/\r/\r/g
I have no clue why, and this seems wrong to me, as this command should not have any effect (replacing \r with \r). But yea, it worked :S