In emacs, how to strip CR (^M) and leave LF (^J) characters?

Question

I am trying to use hexl mode to manually remove some special chars from a text file and don\'t see how to delete anything in hexl mode.

What I really want is to remove c

Answer 1

No need to find replace. Just use.

M-x delete-trailing-whitespace

You can also set the file encoding through

C-x RET f unix