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Line-ending signifies end of line. Depending on operating system line-endings are different.

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Convert ^M (Windows) line breaks to normal line breaks

Vim shows ^M on every line ending. How do I replace this with a normal line break in a file opened in Vim?
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How to find out line-endings in a text file?

I'm trying to use something in bash to show me the line endings in a file printed rather than interpreted. The file is a dump from SSIS/SQL Server being read in by a Linux machine for processing. Are there any switches within vi, less, more,…
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Why should I use core.autocrlf=true in Git?

I have a Git repository that is accessed from both Windows and OS X, and that I know already contains some files with CRLF line-endings. As far as I can tell, there are two ways to deal with this: Set core.autocrlf to false everywhere, Follow the…
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Expected linebreaks to be 'LF' but found 'CRLF' linebreak-style

When using eslint in the gulp project i have encountered a problem with error like this Expected linebreaks to be 'LF' but found 'CRLF' linebreak-style and I am using Windows environment for the running gulp and the entire error log is given below …
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What is the difference between \r and \n?

How are \r and \n different? I think it has something to do with Unix vs. Windows vs. Mac, but I'm not sure exactly how they're different, and which to search for/match in regexes.
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Trying to fix line-endings with git filter-branch, but having no luck

I have been bitten by the Windows/Linux line-ending issue with git. It seems, via GitHub, MSysGit, and other sources, that the best solution is to have your local repos set to use linux-style line endings, but set core.autocrlf to true. …
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What does Visual Studio mean by normalize inconsistent line endings?

Visual Studio occasionally tells me: The line endings in the following files are not consistent. Do you want to normalize the line endings? It then gives me a drop down with different standards or something, such as Windows, Mac, Unix, and a…
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How to read lines of a file in Ruby

I was trying to use the following code to read lines from a file. But when reading a file, the contents are all in one line: line_num=0 File.open('xxx.txt').each do |line| print "#{line_num += 1} #{line}" end But this file prints each line…
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Convert line-endings for whole directory tree (Git)

Following situation: I'm working on a Mac running OS X and recently joined a project whose members so far all use Windows. One of my first tasks was to set up the codebase in a Git repository, so I pulled the directory tree from FTP and tried to…
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Git status ignore line endings / identical files / windows & linux environment / dropbox / meld

How do I make git status ignore line ending differences? Background info: I use randomly Windows and Linux to work on the project. The project is in Dropbox. I found a lot about how do make git diff ignore line endings. Since i use meld git diff…
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With Git, how do I turn off the "LF will be replaced by CRLF" warning

With Git, when using the autocrlf = true flag, a warning is still given when line-endings are changed. I understand what the warning is for, and how to turn off the line-ending flag, but how do I turn off the warning itself?
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env: bash\r: No such file or directory

I'm trying to install YouCompleteMe from here. When I execute: ./install.sh --clang-completer I get this error: env: bash\r: No such file or directory I don't know what's wrong with environment variables. Here's my bash path: which bash…
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What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?

I think it may have to do with TextMate, but we work in a small team and are having some issues with full-file conflicts of nearly identical files in git – in one branch the files have a ^M appended to each line. What is this mysterious ^M character…
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Fixing Sublime Text 2 line endings?

Here is my Settings - User config: { "auto_indent": true, "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Twilight.tmTheme", "default_line_ending": "LF", "detect_indentation": true, "font_size": 10.0, "ignored_packages": …
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Is it possible for git-merge to ignore line-ending differences?

Is it possible for git merge to ignore line-ending differences? Maybe I'm asking the wrong question ... but: I tried uisng config.crlf input but things got a bit messy and out of control, specially when I applied it after the fact. For one thing,…
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