title: Shell command to strip out ^M characters from text file
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/800030/remove-carriage-return-in-unix">Remove carriage return in Unix</a>  </p>
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  <p>I am reading some data generated by an external third party. I have noticed that the ASCII text in the file is interspersed with ^M characters, which I believe is character 13 in ASCII and represents a carriage return without linefeed.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a one liner I can use to strip the ^M characters from the file?</p>
  
  <p>I am running on Linux (Ubuntu).</p>