Removing Windows newlines on Linux (sed vs. awk)

Question

Have some delimited files with improperly placed newline characters in the middle of fields (not line ends), appearing as ^M in Vim. They originate from freebcp (on Centos 6

Answer 1

Another method

awk 1 RS='\r\n' ORS=

• set Record Separator to \r\n
• set Output Record Separator to empty string
• 1 is always true, and in the absence of an action block {print} is used