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Old 07-03-2012
Record count in Unix servers
Hi All,

when i ftp the file from windows machine to unix server the record count in the file is decreased by 1.

example: Say a text file has three lines in it and when you place this file in unix server from your local machine and run a below command
cat filename | wc -l
the output is showing as 2

but when you create a same file and same lines in unix machine directly it will show record count a 3

Any idea why it so?

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Record count of windows file in unix server
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Old 07-03-2012
UNIX does not like windows carriage control bytes - ascii 10 and ascii 13. UNIX carriage control for text files is just a single ascii 10. Called a newline character.

If you want things to work the way you expect all windows files moved to UNIX have to be run through the dos2unix (sometimes called dos2ux) command.
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Old 07-04-2012
... or do the ftp in ASCII mode (not BINARY mode).
 
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