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Old 03-05-2015
Hammer & Screwdriver Remove ^M charecters in all files
Hi,

I wish to remove special charecters at the end of each line "^M" from all files under a folder and sub-folders.

I do not seem to have dos2unix or Perl and my OS is Linux mymachine 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 10 04:11:43 IST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Old 03-05-2015
Hello mohtashims,

Following may help you in same.
Code:
tr -d '\r' < Input_file >Output_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 03-05-2015
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello mohtashims,

Following may help you in same.
Code:
tr -d '\r' < Input_file >Output_file

Thanks,
R. Singh
This may work on a single file .... my requirement is that the command should traverse all directories and sub-directories for all files and remove the special characters.
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Old 03-05-2015
Are these files being delivered by FTP? Perhaps you could force the sending option to ASCII to see if that helps prevent this in the first place.


Kind regards,
Robin
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Old 03-05-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbatte1
Are these files being delivered by FTP? Perhaps you could force the sending option to ASCII to see if that helps prevent this in the first place.


Kind regards,
Robin
I zipped the folder with all files on Windows & used WinScp with SFTP and SCP protocols to upload them to Linux where i see these specil characters. Any guesses ?
# 6  
Old 03-05-2015
Try (using GNU sed) :
Code:
find /path/to/folder -type f -exec sed -i 's/\r$//' {} +

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 03-05-2015 at 01:32 PM..
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mohtashims
# 7  
Old 03-05-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try (using GNU sed) :
Code:
find /path/to/folder -type f -exec sed -i 's/\r//g' {} +

This works as champ !!
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