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Old 02-14-2006
Contol M (^M) characters
Is there a way to recursively find scripts/files with ^M characters embedded in them

Usually the case is when a file is saved on unix but in dos/windows format it ends up have ^M characters at the end of each line.

Please let me know if there is a way to recursively find them.
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Old 02-14-2006
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Originally Posted by Anubhav
Is there a way to recursively find scripts/files with ^M characters embedded in them

Usually the case is when a file is saved on unix but in dos/windows format it ends up have ^M characters at the end of each line.

Please let me know if there is a way to recursively find them.
Are you trying to remove them so that windows may read the file?

If you are, I would try:

xtod unixfile > windowsfile

Georgio
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Old 02-15-2006
try command dos2unix <filename> or unix2dos<filename>
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Old 02-15-2006
grep -l ^M *

type:
grep -l <ctrl-V><ctrl-M> *
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