Is there a way to recursively find scripts/files with ^M characters embedded in them

Usually the case is when a file is saved on unix but in dos/windows format it ends up have ^M characters at the end of each line.

Please let me know if there is a way to recursively find them.

Are you trying to remove them so that windows may read the file?

If you are, I would try:

xtod unixfile > windowsfile

Georgio

try command dos2unix <filename> or unix2dos<filename>

grep -l ^M *

type:
grep -l <ctrl-V><ctrl-M> *