That's an indicator that line are terminated with an (additional?) non-*nix standard <CR> (^M = 0x0D = \r) character. I learned in here that this be the default on macOS?
What baffles me is the inconsistency between lines; two with vs one without it.
Try
- not sure if and how this helps on macOS ...
It looks like the file you are processing is partially in DOS text file format with some <carriage-return> <newline> character pair line separators instead of UNIX text file format <newline> single character line terminators. But, as RudiC said, we would expect that to happen on every line; not just the first and last.
Please confirm by running the command:
where filename is the name of the input file you processed to get the output you showed us in post #7 in this thread.
To get rid of the <carriage-return>s in a file you can use:
where old_file is the name of a file containing <carriage-return>s and new_file is the name of thee file that you want to contain the contents of old_file without the <carriage-return>s. If this is a common problem with input files you'll be processing, you can change the script I suggested before to be:
or:
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