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# 1  
Old 07-12-2015
Need to remove ^M charecters from all files
Hi,

Below is my script where i wish to remove '^M' charecters from all files in the directory and sub-directories. Below code which is not able to remove all '^M' characters from all my files in all sub directories.

Code:
find properties/* -type f -exec sh -c '
for file do
tr -d '^M' < $file > $file.1;
mv $file.1 $file
done' sh {} +

I also tried tr -d "\044" "\n" < $file > $file.1; and tr -d '\015' '\n' < $file > $file.1;

What wrong with my code?
# 2  
Old 07-12-2015
Try:
Code:
tr -d '\r' < file > file.$$ && mv file.$$ file

This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
mohtashims
# 3  
Old 07-12-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
Try:
Code:
tr -d '\r' < file > file.$$ && mv file.$$ file

Resolved !!
# 4  
Old 07-12-2015
Works using bash, ksh or dash:
Code:
for f in properties/*
do
   [ ! -f "$f" ] && continue
   tr -d  "\015" < "$f" > "$f.1" 
   mv "$f.1" "$f"
done

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