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# 8  
Old 06-23-2007
Thanks a lot for the very quick response....I'm able to delete all control-Ms
# 9  
Old 09-01-2008
Recursive Control M
For each file recursively I used -

find / -name "*" | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *

This will find all files "*" starting from the root and on each file having ^M will perform a cleanup globally.


But there is a PROBLEM with this command . It changed all my LIBRABRIES since i used -- perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *

Is there some way to revert this thing from my libraries . Does any revert command exits for the Control M in libraries. I believe my libraries are corrupted now.

Regards,
Telecomics
# 10  
Old 09-01-2008
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Originally Posted by telecomics
For each file recursively I used -

find / -name "*" | xargs perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *

This will find all files "*" starting from the root and on each file having ^M will perform a cleanup globally.


But there is a PROBLEM with this command . It changed all my LIBRABRIES since i used -- perl -p -i -e 's/^M//g' *

Is there some way to revert this thing from my libraries . Does any revert command exits for the Control M in libraries. I believe my libraries are corrupted now.

Regards,
Telecomics

Am afraid no options are available, except if you have backups....Smilie
# 11  
Old 09-02-2008
hmm
control M characters are mess.. yes.. when copied from windows..
i have a simpler way to do this Smilie

dos2unix file1 >file2
mv file2 file1
Smilie

tell me if it works for you
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