How to remove \r character with sed

Question

Very simply I have a file that has \\r\\n at every line break.

aaaa\\r\\nbbbb\\r\\ncccc

I would like to remove the \\r character while leav

Answer 1

You should be able to do it with sed like this:

sed 's/\r//g' orig.txt > modified.txt

Answer 2

In case you are using the terminal on a mac, use this instead to be able to recognize \r

sed "s/$(printf '\r')\$//" orig.txt > modified.txt