set fileformat=unix

Short, sweet and very useful.

Was running a shell script in Linux to execute some SQL, and got the following error during start of script:

^M: bad interpreter

Yes, received the script from the windows.

Now to rectify this, open the script file in VI editor and give following command:

:set fileformat=unix

save it with :wq

and run it again.

Should Run like a beaut.