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Old 06-02-2009
CPU & Memory how to avoid new line characters
Hi,
I am using gzip command to compress the files at the UNIX server and FTP ing it in Binary mode to Windows server.(If ASCII mode is used im getting the output as junk characters)
When i extract the files at Windows server a new line character is getting appended to the output file which is not needed.
the output file should have the text entered in new line instead of new line character.
Output file i get:
0008708 20090515386047FINALA [] 7176 1000002 [] 0008708 20090515386048PARTC []1863 1000002 []0008708 20090516386047FINALB

Actual output file needed
0008708 20090515386047FINALA
7176 1000002
0008708 20090515386048PARTC 1863 1000002
0008708 20090516386047FINALB

i am getting a box []character as an new line character instead it should be a new line itself.
Kindly help to avoid this issue.
# 2  
Old 06-02-2009
Anytime you transfer a file from UNIX to Windows as binary the end of record will only have a newline and not carriage return line feed which Windows Uses. So you have to either convert the files on the UNIX side before you ftp them over to windows. Or on the windows box. You are probably using notepad to look at the files on Windows. If you use wordpad or write it should display the files correctly. So you can use the tr command for example on the UNIX side to convert the files. If you have Windows Services for Unix on windows you can use a flip command to convert the files from UNIX to windows.
# 3  
Old 06-03-2009
Thanks a lot for your advice..
But if i transfer them in Ascii mode i am getting the files with lots of junk character can we avoid this issue?
# 4  
Old 06-04-2009
I am not saying transfer them in ASCII mode. You have compressed the files into binary files using gzip. Therefore you have to transfer the files in binary mode. All I am saying is that when you gunzip the files on the other system which you said was windows then the files that were zipped up need to be converted to windows files. So either you need to convert the files before you gzip them to Windows files or convert them to windows after you gunzip them on the windows side. The only way you can transfer them in ASCII mode is not to compress the files together using gzip.
# 5  
Old 06-04-2009
Format the files in the UNIX environtment before you compress them with the following code and transfer the compressed file in binair mode:

Code:
awk '{printf "%s\r\n", $0}' unixfile > dosfile

The command places a CR-LF pair at the end of the lines and does the same like a tool as unix2dos.

Regards
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