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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script with ^M causes display issue with cat or more Post 302805003 by juzz4fun on Thursday 9th of May 2013 01:32:06 PM
Old 05-09-2013
1st query is working fine for me.
Would be great if you could show the output you are getting... I tried with vi, cat and more, I could see no ^M characters in the output files.
Or am I missing something?
 

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CAT(1)								   User Commands							    CAT(1)

NAME
cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output SYNOPSIS
cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines, overrides -n -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. EXAMPLES
cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output. AUTHOR
Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman. REPORTING BUGS
Report cat bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report cat translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
tac(1) The full documentation for cat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cat programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'cat invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.12.197-032bb September 2011 CAT(1)
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