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Sometimes when editing a file which was created on a machine other then your Linux machine, each line ends up with a visible ^M (CTRL + M). To remove this at each line you can use vi. In vi you can escape a control character by preceeding it with a ^V (CTRL + V). Now using the search and replace command you can easily change the ^M (CTRL + M) in all lines. Change vi to the escape mode and type

%s/^V^M//g

CTRL+V and CTRL+M, this will look on your screen as:

%s/^M//g