How can i find all the files contains ^M ? - Shell Programming and Scripting

umen · #1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2007

hi
i have lots of text files that contains ^M , now i like to remove them
using dos2unix but first i need to find all of them , what is the best way to do that ?

aigles · #2 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007

You can get the list of files containing ^M with the command (^M = ctrl/V+ctrl/M) :

Code:

grep -l "^M" *

Jean-Pierre.

hegemaro · #3 (**permalink**) 02-22-2007

As an aside, you can run dos2unix against a text file without carriage returns with no ill effect. Sometimes its easier to just apply the same command against an entire directory.

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