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Old 05-26-2015
FTP xlsx file doesn't work ...contains wierd characters.
Guys,
I've a xlsx file containing pivot tables and my job is to FTP it from one Linux terminal to another.

I use the script below :
Code:
ftp -in xxxx > /ftp.log 2>&1 <<EOT
user xxx yyyy
binary
cd <directory>
put xxx.xlsx `basename xxx.xlsx`
bye
EOT

After the file is received in the FTP location & subsequently moved to windows terminal, I see the file containing weird characters and is corrupted.

Could someone suggest me the resolution?

Regards,
Bugs
Last edited by Don Cragun; 05-26-2015 at 11:24 PM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 05-27-2015
Do you mean characters that look like ^M? Since you used binary transfer I would guess you know about carriage control characters in DOS and UNIX.

Do the two machines (source and destination) have identical locales?
# 3  
Old 05-27-2015
How did the file arrive on the original linux host? It may be already corrupted.
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