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Old 04-10-2012
Last line gets deleted
I was using the following option to clean up the ^M characters in a file that was FTPed from Windows:
- dos2unix
- sed 's/^M//g'

The ^M characters are removed but the last line is also getting removed. Any idea why this is happening.

Satish
# 2  
Old 04-10-2012
Perhaps the last line didn't have a newline at all? That will interfere with some unix tools, many of which expect entire lines.

tr doesn't care about lines, though, so try this:

Code:
tr -d '\r' < inputfile > newfile
echo >> newfile

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Old 04-10-2012
Thank you. That was the isssue.
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