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Eureka!


Thanks Ygor.


That's done the trick!

(albeit with nawk rather than awk!)

the problem is that the
corruption inserts a <Ctl M> charactor and throws a line.

Hence

instead of bbbb

we get :

bb<CtlM>
bb

By simply substituting <Ctl M> with ''
I get

bb...

Thanks.

However, I am able to do this using vi.

I am asking how to do it in a script,
so it can be automated.

Morning,

Hopefully someone can help an newbie!

I have been getting a number of file corruptions with
Rogue "Control M" charactors [ carriage return ].

The effect is:

Should be

aaaa...