Shell Programming and Scripting

Please post the answer to my questions from post #4 and the "od" output from post #6.
We won't get anywhere until we know what characters are in the file.

Thanks for reply... below are the results that i captured in AIX box for the file inputfile.txt

Post 4 output:
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sed -n l inputfile.txt.txt
1231231231$
asdafsaf$

post 6 output:
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$ od -h <inputfile.txt.txt
0000000 3132 3331 3233 3132 3331 0a61 7364 6166
0000020 7361 6600
0000023
$ od -hc <inputfile.txt.txt
0000000 3132 3331 3233 3132 3331 0a61 7364 6166
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 \n a s d a f
0000020 7361 6600
s a f
0000023
$ od -oc <inputfile.txt.txt
0000000 030462 031461 031063 030462 031461 005141 071544 060546
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 \n a s d a f
0000020 071541 063000
s a f
0000023
$ od -bc <inputfile.txt.txt
0000000 061 062 063 061 062 063 061 062 063 061 012 141 163 144 141 146
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 \n a s d a f
0000020 163 141 146
s a f
0000023

What you have there is not a text format file. There is no trailing line-feed character on the last record.

If (referring to post #1) you want to remove the rest of the carriage return characters to produce a file which might be suitable for your program but is unsuitable for processing in shell or common utilities such as "sed" "tail" etc.:

Code:

cat oldfile | tr -d '\n' > newfile

EDIT: already answered