Another problem..Please help..

[fsanchez13]

Ok when I VI a file I see the following

23:59:41^M SECTION 12: TRUNK GROUP^M
ID TGNAME^M
50^M
51^M
52^M
53^M
ID IPC OPC OFL MTU USG ITUSG OTUSG^M
50 0 7 0 0 0 0 0^M
51 0 18 0 0 2 0 2^M
52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0^M
53 0 4 0 0 0 0 0^M
ID IPCTT OPCTT OFLTT SILC EAIPC EAITU FAOUT^M
50 0 7 0 0 0 0 0^M
51 0 18 0 0 0 0 0^M
52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0^M
53 0 4 0 0 0 0 0^M
ID IAMRC RELI INSVC OOS^M
50 0 0 64 0^M
51 0 0 2 0^M
52 0 0 1 0^M
53 0 0 1 0^M
^M
^M


But when I cat the same file I see it like:
SECTION 12: TRUNK GROUP
ID TGNAME
50
51
52
53
ID IPC OPC OFL MTU USG ITUSG OTUSG
50 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
51 0 18 0 0 2 0 2
52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
53 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
ID IPCTT OPCTT OFLTT SILC EAIPC EAITU FAOUT
50 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
51 0 18 0 0 0 0 0
52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
53 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
ID IAMRC RELI INSVC OOS
50 0 0 64 0
51 0 0 2 0
52 0 0 1 0
53 0 0 1 0


How do I get rid of all the ^M from the file? I need it to look like the VI version just without the ^M.

 

[Hemo]

Those are carriage returns. Dos and windows typically use these to mark the end of a line. Unix/linux just uses a linefeed.

There are many methods to get rid of those ^M characters. Under SCO there is a utility called dtox and you would do it this way:
dtox oldfile > newfile

I think other unixes may have this but call it dos2unix or similar.

Since your file is small, you may just want to try this:

cat oldfile > newfile

and they should go away.

 

[fsanchez13]

Thanks Hemo but the problem is this file is HUGE!! I only cut a small tid bit to show as well as when I cat the file it drops the Time Stamp that I need

 

[Hemo]

ok, foot in my mouth.
cat oldfile > newfile
doesn't seem to kill the ^M characters on my unix box. Back to other methods.

dos2unix oldfile newfile

or even in vi you can do a global edit and get rid of those characters. Press : to get into edit mode, then enter the following
1,$s/^M//

and press enter. To enter the ^M in the edit line, first press Ctrl-v, and then press Ctrl-m. This will substitute blank space with the ^M starting at line 1 to the end of the file.

 

[fsanchez13]

I tried the dos2unix and it works great. Thank you very much