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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search For Control M characters in files Post 302092085 by Mohammed on Friday 6th of October 2006 11:12:02 AM
Old 10-06-2006
Search For Control M characters in files

Hi ,

I have special character control M in many of my files as below

ersNet-Telnet-3.03/Makefile.PL100644 21166 144 612 7113770214 135
77 0ustar jayusers## -*- Perl -*-^M
^M
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker qw(WriteMakefile);^M
^M
WriteMakefile(NAME => "Net::Telnet",^M
DISTNAME => "Net-Telnet",^M
VERSION_FROM => "lib/Net/Telnet.pm",^M
dist => { COMPRESS => "gzip", SUFFIX => "gz" },^M
($] >= 5.005 ?^M
(ABSTRACT => "Interact with TELNET port



Is there any script/command to find which all files have these control M characters. I tried doing a grep for ^M in my entire directories and sub-directories but it lists files which do not have ^M characters also.

Thanks in Advance
Mohammed
 

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NAME
dh_installdeb - install files into the DEBIAN directory SYNOPSIS
dh_installdeb [debhelperoptions] DESCRIPTION
dh_installdeb is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files into the DEBIAN directories in package build directories with the correct permissions. FILES
package.postinst package.preinst package.postrm package.prerm These maintainer scripts are installed into the DEBIAN directory. Inside the scripts, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands. package.triggers package.shlibs These control files are installed into the DEBIAN directory. package.conffiles This control file will be installed into the DEBIAN directory. In v3 compatibility mode and higher, all files in the etc/ directory in a package will automatically be flagged as conffiles by this program, so there is no need to list them manually here. package.maintscript Lines in this file correspond to dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) commands and parameters. Any shell metacharacters will be escaped, so arbitrary shell code cannot be inserted here. For example, a line such as "mv_conffile /etc/oldconffile /etc/newconffile" will insert maintainer script snippets into all maintainer scripts sufficient to move that conffile. A versioned Pre-Dependency on dpkg is needed to use dpkg-maintscript-helper(1). An appropriate Pre-Dependency is set in ${misc:Pre-Depends} ; you should make sure to put that token into an appropriate place in your debian/control file. SEE ALSO
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