When I ftp from my pc to a unix box, my file fransfers, but each line
contains a ^M at the end of the line. Does anyone know how to remove the
character.

Thanks.

In article <3fdde604_1@news.athenanews.com>,
"Pete Rau" <Pete_Rau@beamspeed.net> wrote:

> When I ftp from my pc to a unix box, my file fransfers, but each line
> contains a ^M at the end of the line. Does anyone know how to remove the
> character.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

A quick and dirty way is to use tr:

tr '\r' '\n' <oldfile >newfile

Pete Rau wrote:

> When I ftp from my pc to a unix box, my file fransfers, but each line
> contains a ^M at the end of the line. Does anyone know how to remove the
> character.

Use the "ascii" subcommand in ftp to set your file mode
to ASCII. Or otherwise force the mode to ASCII instead
of binary. ASCII mode will cause the two machines to
do what's necessary for <CR><LF> pairs when going from
a windoze box to Unix.

Once there, the tr command is helpful (as suggested in another
reply).

--
Gary R. Hook / AIX PartnerWorld for Developers / These opinions are MINE
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"Pete Rau" <Pete_Rau@beamspeed.net> wrote in message news:<3fdde604_1@news.athenanews.com>...
> When I ftp from my pc to a unix box, my file fransfers, but each line
> contains a ^M at the end of the line. Does anyone know how to remove the
> character.
>
> Thanks.

vi the file and do :1,$s/<ctrl v><ctrl m>//g then do :wq!
I think you also need to ftp the file using ascii mode, butI can't confirm this.

Steve

Pete Rau wrote:
> When I ftp from my pc to a unix box, my file fransfers, but each line
> contains a ^M at the end of the line. Does anyone know how to remove the
> character.
>
> Thanks.
>
>

After the fact, you can use vi interactively
with :%s/.$//
(as long as there's carriage return after the last line.. you
may want to check that.. otherwise you may drop the last
character of the file)

Or use perl:

perl -pi -e 's/.$//' filename

Make sure you are in ascii mode when you transfer text files...
if you are transferring a mix of files... then you can
use the perl command above to fix the text ones.