UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I'm copying a tar file from one linux machine to my aix machine.I'm getting control-M's in all my files.If i try to remove them using a script some of my jar files are getting corrupted.I used binary mode to transfer the data.Can anyone suggest me about how can i aviod these control-M's.As far as i observed this problem is specific to AIX in my case.

Thanks in advanace
Padmavathi

Hi,

I'm copying files from some other linux machine to aix machine.I'm getting control-M's in all my files.My destination machine is AIX and i'm getting problem with AIX only.Can anyone suggest me how to avoid this problem.

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try using dos2unix untility on the file once it is on AIX.

Hi,

I'm getting problem after copying some files from linux machine to aix machine.control-M characters are coming in the files which i copied.I used bin mode to copy but still I'm getting the same problem.Any idea about to how to avoid these characters while copying

didn't get you....how to use this dos2unix utility on aix

When you copy files between two different *nix systems, you shouldn't be facing this problem. The newline representation on *nix is just '\n'. It is the DOS/Windows representation of '\r\n' that causes the ^M to show up. Are you sure that the files weren't taken from some Windows system to begin with?

Also, most *nixes give you a dos2unix/dos2ux utility that will take care of this problem for you. Check what it is called on AIX and you should be good to go.