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When I open file using cat command in terminal then '^M' this symbol is shown but in gedit this symbol is not visible.How to shown on gedit or how to remove?

Foxan Ng
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Prafulla Yeole
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  • It's a carriage return -- check gedit for whitespace options (the new gedit seems much worse in the options regard, though) -- ([maybe this?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17162851/option-to-display-control-characters-in-gedit)). See [this related](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13589895/shell-command-to-strip-out-m-characters-from-text-file) for information about how to strip them out. – jedwards Aug 01 '16 at 07:17
  • Is any option in gedit for encoding text? – Prafulla Yeole Aug 01 '16 at 07:23
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    It depends on the gedit version. Older ones definitely had this option. But this question may be better suited for SuperUser – jedwards Aug 01 '16 at 07:25

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^M, as noted in the comments, is the carriage-return character. Instead of looking for a way to make gefit display them just so you could remove them manually, it may be easier to use dos2unix:

$ dos2unix myfile.txt
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