Strip ^M with sed #2 (was Re: [plug] Netscape Default Profile...)

[Steve Grasso]

>BTW: Any idea how I use sed to strip out ^M's (artefact of DOS txt files) from
>a text file?
>[snip]
>Quote from the "sed" manpage about Regular Expressions:
>        [XXX FIXME: more needs to be  said.   At  the
>        very   least,   a  reference  to  another  document  which
>        describes what is supported should be given.]

Having had a bit of a play, it would appear that neither \r (carriage 
return) nor ^M  are supported in sed regex's

(any reason you can't use a perl one-liner Trevor?)

Steve