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Old 08-26-2010
Junk Character appended at the end of a line
Hi All
I have a rather unusual problem, which i have not faced till now. I have a script which exports some paths to a text file. The script runs fine but when i check the output file i can see some junk characters ^M appended at end of lines and random places. I am not able to figure this out..

Any help would be greately appriciated...


Thanks!!!
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Old 08-26-2010
Run
Code:
dos2unix file

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Old 08-26-2010
hey thanks a lot for the reply... can you tell me how can i fix this......Smilie

Thanks!!!!
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Old 08-26-2010
Did you run "dos2unix" on your file?
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Old 08-26-2010
If you are using linux environment, insert below line in your script
Code:
dos2unix file

If solaris, then
Code:
dos2unix file > file2
\mv file2 file

actually this problem usually occurs when you are taking some database from windows and using in linux.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 08-27-2010 at 04:31 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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