Hi ,

I faced a very strange problem when I unzip a zip file on my solaris workstation. Actually I wanted to transfer a folder, say it TEST which contains some sub-folders inside it from windows to solaris machine. So I zipped this folder to TEST.ZIP on my windows machine.

Then from my windows machine, I started ftp from command prompt and connected to my solaris machine and I copied this TEST.ZIP folder using put command to my solaris mahcine in bin mode.

On my solaris machine, I extracted this folder by following command :-
$ unzip TEST.ZIP
It unzipped the folder and produced a TEST folder. But the problem is that when I opened any file from any of the sub-folders of this TEST folder using vi editor, in every line it is showing "^M" i.e., control + M character which I dont intended.

Firstly I could not know how these control chars are getting appended. But when I searched on google for solving the problem, I could only find the reason but not its solution. The reason for these control char is that in window every line is terminated by Enter or Return key which in solaris mahcine appeared as these control chars.

Anybody who have any idea, please help me ASAP.

Regards,
Raj Kumar Arora

that one will always happen.

on yur solaris machine just run dos2unix, check yur man pages how to run

or

vi file

:%s/^M//g <--- enter

The later option does not worked for me showing the error message "Searched pattern match failed". The first option dos2unix is working but its suitable for only some of the files or only few files as for it the source file name and target file name should be different. So I tried to firstly cp/mv all file like this mv *.cc *.cc.old
or cp *.cc *.cc.old
which failed because the cp or mv command failed for * wildcard. I cant manually change for each file as I am having a bunch of files.

Any alternative ?

Regards,
Raj Kumar Arora

the ^ refers to the beginning of a line wenn using the sed so you have to mask it like \^M so the correct vi / sed command should look like

:%s/\^M//g


cheers

Sorry to say that even this doesnt work. Also when I also tried to find out
only ^M in file by typing /^M enter; then that too didnt worked out.

The reason is that it pertains combination of the two chars ^ and M as a single char and not two different chars. I came to known this conclusion by deleting the char ( using x key in escape mode). It needs to press only one time the x key for deleting this combination of these two chars.

Regards,
Raj Kumar Arora

:%s/^M//g will work in vi mode

I told u to vi the file right?