Add Control M character in a text file

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Hi I am trying to add Control M character in a text file using Putty. I tried to do Ctrl-v Ctrl-M but as soon as I do this it goes out of putty to my desktop home.Can anyone please tell me how to add Ctrl M character in a file

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '20 at 11:45

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The easiest way would probably be to use the unix2dos utility:

$ unix2dos myfile.txt

answered Mar 19 '20 at 11:45

Mureinik

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This will add control m character in the file? – Pramod Bhat Mar 19 '20 at 11:48
@PramodBhat Yes, it will. At least it did for me on RHEL7. – Bence Kaulics Aug 29 '22 at 13:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '20 at 11:55

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In vim in the insert mode and type CTRL-v CTRL-m.

answered Mar 19 '20 at 11:55

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This is what I tried,as soon as I do this it comes back to homepage – Pramod Bhat Mar 19 '20 at 11:56
You can enter unicode characters in vim. Press and type CTRL-v and then the hex code of the character – RishabhHardas Mar 19 '20 at 12:02
Hey I pressed Ctrl V followed by enter and it worked.but how?? Any idea? – Pramod Bhat Mar 19 '20 at 12:08
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Windows-based text editors will have a special carriage return character (CR+LF) at the end of lines to denote a line return or newline, which will be displayed incorrectly in Linux (^M). – RishabhHardas Mar 19 '20 at 12:09

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '21 at 20:00

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In Vim, in the insert mode, Ctrl-V x##, where ## is the hex code of the character. In case of Ctrl-M the combination is Ctrl-V x0d. You can see the hex value of a character under cursor if you type :as command.

answered Aug 23 '21 at 20:00

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Add Control M character in a text file

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