Nov 21

deleting mail in Unix

type mail

d * will remove all mail

d 1 3 deletes the 1st and 3rd messages
d 1-3 deletes messages 1 through 3
d deletes the current message

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Sep 09

To remove the ^M characters at the end of all lines in vi, use:

:%s/^V^M//g

The ^v is a CONTROL-V character and ^m is a CONTROL-M. When you type this, it will look like this:

:%s/^M//g

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