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Old 05-13-2005
Question How to remove ^Z (eof) using sub in awk
I am looking for the substitution expression to remove the eof ^Z character at the end of a file in UNIX.

Can anyone help?

Thank you !
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Old 05-13-2005
check this thread out:

https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t...light=dos+unix

same issue, just substitute ^M with ^Z
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Old 05-13-2005
Since you are working with DOS text files, unix has a utility called either dos2ux or dos2unix which cleans up all the non-unix crud in DOS files moved to unix.
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