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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting New line characters in Ascii file Post 302420230 by appu2176 on Tuesday 11th of May 2010 04:49:14 AM
Old 05-11-2010
New line characters in Ascii file
I am having a file(1234.txt) downloaded from windows server (in Ascii format).However when i ftp this file to Unix server and try to work with it..i am unable to do anything.When i try to open the file using vi editor the file opens in the following format ...

Code:
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"1234.txt" 1 line, 73232 characters

I believe the whole file is being treated as a single line.

when i view the file using more command...the following is the output...where i could see the end-of-line charaters(^M) similar to binary file opened in vi editor.

Code:
 
more 1234.txt

00:06:00 CARD TAKEN^M 00:06:01 TRANSACTION END^M*901*05/05/2010*00:45*^M *TRANSACTION START*^M CARD INSERTED^MCARD: *****************^MDATE 05-05-10 TIME 00:45:11^M 00:4
5:22 PIN ENTERED^M*902*05/05/2010*00:45*^M *9561*1*w*0, M-00, R-0

The same file if i open using wordpad or ultraedit in windows,the following is the output (the correct format)


Code:
 
00:06:00 CARD TAKEN
00:06:01 TRANSACTION END
*901*05/05/2010*00:45*
*TRANSACTION START*
CARD INSERTED
CARD: *****************
DATE 05-05-10 TIME 00:45:11
00:45:22 PIN ENTERED
*902*05/05/2010*00:45*
*9561*1*w*0, M-00, R-0

I am not sure where i am making mistake.

I tried FTP in ASCII as well as binary format and i tried the following awk command as suggested by Franklin 52 in one of the similar post earlier

Code:
 
awk '{printf "%s\r\n", $0}' 1234.txt >> 1234.txt1

still i am not getting the output in unix similar to wordpad/ultra edit.
 

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ascii-xfr

ASCII-XFR(1)							Linux Users Manual						      ASCII-XFR(1)

NAME

       ascii-xfr - upload/download files using the ASCII protocol

SYNOPSIS

       ascii-xfr -s|-r [-ednv] [-l linedelay] [-c characterdelay] filename

DESCRIPTION

       Ascii-xfr  Transfers  files in ASCII mode. This means no flow control, no checksumming and no file-name negotiation. It should only be used
       if the remote system doesn't understand anything else.

       The ASCII protocol transfers files line-by-line. The EOL (End-Of-Line) character is transmitted as CRLF. When receiving, the  CR  character
       is  stripped  from the incoming file.  The Control-Z (ASCII 26) character signals End-Of-File, if option -e is specified (unless you change
       it to Control-D (ASCII 4) with -d).

       Ascii-xfr reads from stdin when receiving, and sends data on stdout when sending. Some form of input or output  redirection  to	the  modem
       device is thus needed when downloading or uploading, respectively.

OPTIONS

       -s     Send a file.

       -r     Receive a file. One of -s or -r must be present.

       -e     Send the End-Of-File character (Control-Z, ASCII 26 by default) when uploading has finished.

       -d     Use the Control-D (ASCII 4) as End-Of-File character.

       -n     Do not translate CR to CRLF and vice versa.

       -v     Verbose: show transfer statistics on the stderr output.

       -l milliseconds
	      When transmitting, pause for this delay after each line.

       -c milliseconds
	      When transmitting, pause for this delay after each character.

       file   Name of the file to send or receive. When receiving, any existing file by this name will be truncated.

USAGE WITH MINICOM

       If  you	want to call this program from minicom(1), start minicom and go to the Options menu. Select File transfer protocols.  Add the fol-
       lowing lines, for example as protocols I and J.

       I  Ascii    /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -sv   Y	U   N	Y
       J  Ascii    /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -rv   Y	D   N	Y

AUTHOR

       Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl
       Jukka Lahtinen, walker@netsonic.fi

SEE ALSO

       minicom(1)

							   $Date: 2006-10-28 14:35:59 $ 					      ASCII-XFR(1)
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