How to remove ^M character with VI

This is how you remove those annoying ^M characters that show up in files previously edited on a Windows/DOS platform.

In VI,

:%s/[ctrlkey+v and ctrl-key+M]//g

actual command,

:%s/^V^M//g

Here’s a walk through video I made. My first actually 🙂

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_w3VDkxKU[/youtube]