How to get rid of windows control characters in unix

Open file and on command mode execute below

%s/ctrl-v ctrl-m//g

Finally, it should show :%s/^M//g

Alternatively we can also execute dos2unix utility to convert the file from windows to unix.

dos2unix filefromdos.xml filetounix.xml


We can also transfer the zip file and unzip it using ASCII mode.


$unzip -a mywindowsfile.zip