How to get rid of control M on Unix... 1

[kumariaru]

Hi All,
I have a script which takes multiple files from a UNIX server and renames them and put to a Unix folder.

Below is the script:


SrcDir=$1

cd $SrcDir
ls *_*.txt | nawk '
{x=$0;sub(/_.*\.txt$/,".txt",x); printf "cp %s /ap/test/cat/%s\n",$0,x}
' |sh -v

I am successfully moving all the files with renames.But I have an issue with the ^M to few files. I can see that source directory files are not having ^M. But when I run this script and copy the files , I can see that few files are having ^M's at the end.
I want all the files in one format(Unix format).
How can I come out of this problem...
Thanks in advance....

 

[sbrews]

There is a utility called dos2unix and its counterpart called unix2dos. Its sole job is to remove those pesky ^Ms.

You can also remove them via tr:

cat some.file | tr -d "\015" > some.new_file

some.new_file will now have all the control Ms removed.

Add a little color to your PUTTY terminal: faq52-6627

 

[sbrews]

ps - more info on unix2dos/dos2unix here:

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=unix2dos&btnG=Google+Search

Add a little color to your PUTTY terminal: faq52-6627

 

[ZaSter]

Just a thought. Does the script still work if the "\n" in the "printf" is replaced by a ";"?