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How to Remove Ctrl M characters in files from directories and its subdirectories
Hi,
How to recursively remove Ctrl M characters in files from a directory and its sub directory ?

I know unix2dos command is there but to remove in bunch of files ... ?


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You need to write a script.
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Try modifying with the following script............

for files in *.html;
do
mv $files $files.old
dos2unix $files.old $files
rm -rf $files.old
done
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Code:
find /path/to/files -print | \
while read file
do
     dos2ux "$file" > ./tmpfile
     mv ./tmpfile "$file"
done
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Reply to the script by corleone
Hi corleone,

Iam getting error
/could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard typed ......


Do I need to save the script in .sh format ?
How do I run the script ? Kindly reply since Iam naive. Iam using unix on solaris.

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This error comes from dos2unix and doesn't stop the utility from working. You could simply redirect stderr

dos2unix filename > newfilename 2> /dev/null
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