RE: Re: getting rid of ^M

[tony@servacorp.com]

florin.i at tiscali.it wrote:
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>Craig Hammond dixit (2006-09-01, 10:20:04):
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>> After FTPing a heap of files from Windows to
>OBSD, I have found that a
>> lot of the text them have a ^M at the end of each
>line. Is there any
>> easy way to recursively strip out the ^M of all
>affected files in a
>> number of directories.
>
>Use something like this, where ^M is obtained by
>pressing CTRL-V
>followed by CTRL-M:
>
>for i in `ls`; do sed 's/^M//g' $i > $i.new;done
>

This may be an OUCH

DOS text lines end with <Carriage-Return><Line-Feed>
UNIX text lines end with <Line-Feed>
Apple text lines end with <Carriage-Return>  (or some such)

FTP transfers from one kind of system to another will take care of the different line-endings on an ASCII transfer.
An ASCII transfer of a binary file tends to wreck the file. Getting rid of all the Carriage-Returns (anywhere in the file) would do even more damage.

Unixy systems may have a pair of dos2unix and unix2dos programs designed to convert text files from one kind to the other.