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ascii FTP from Linux to Linux adding carriage returns
Hi,
I've got an issue with a shell script that FTP's a file from one Linux server to another Linux server.

My script runs on a Linux server and creates an output file (from a database call), and then FTP's this file to another Linux server.

The problem is that, even though the output file has no ^M (ctrl-M) characters at the end of each line, when I transfer it via FTP to another server, the file on the receiving end does have these characters.

I've tried both binary and ascii transfer and get the same result. If I send the file to a Solaris server I don't get these additional characters.

Does anyone know why?

On Linux I'm running RedHat 4 on both servers. Using plain old ftp to send and running vsFTP as the daemon process to receive on the receiving end.

I know I could dos2unix the file on the receiving end but the client isn't able to change their processing so is this an OS or FTP setting somewhere?
 
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simpleftp

SIMPLEFTP(1)						    InterNetNews Documentation						      SIMPLEFTP(1)

NAME

       simpleftp - Rudimentary FTP client

SYNOPSIS

       simpleftp url [...]

DESCRIPTION

       simpleftp is a Perl script that provides basic support for fetching files with FTP in a batch oriented fashion.	It takes one or more FTP
       URLs on the command line.  The file(s) will be retrieved from the remote server and placed in the current directory with the same basename
       as on the remote; e.g., <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz> is stored as active.gz in the current directory.

       The script properly understands usernames, passwords and ports specified as follows:

	   ftp://user:password@host:port/path/file

BUGS

       simpleftp is an extremely poor substitute for more complete programs like the freely available wget or ncftp utilities.	It was written
       only to provide elementary support in INN for non-interactive fetching of the files in <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/> or
       <ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/> without requiring administrators to install yet another package.	Its shortcomings as a general
       purpose program are too numerous to mention, but one that stands out is that downloaded files by simpleftp override existing files with the
       same name in the local directory.

HISTORY

       Tossed off by David C Lawrence <tale@isc.org> for InterNetNews.	Rewritten to use "Net::FTP" by Julien Elie.

       $Id: simpleftp.pod 8357 2009-02-27 17:56:00Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

       actsync(8).

INN 2.5.2							    2009-05-21							      SIMPLEFTP(1)