Remove ctrl-m from beginning of records

[prowe]

Hi

I have a file that originated from our IBM mainframe, with the first 2-bytes (I think!) of each record being a control-m character, which the mainframe guys can't remove.

When I vi the file it shows as ^?M

How do I remove this control character from the beginning of every record in the file?

Thanks

 

[lfoata]

If you are using ftp, try the transfer in binary mode.
Else do a man on sed, with sed you will be able to remove the CRTL-M (carriage stuff) from the beginning of every line using a script. Too bad I.T. is not cash business

Luc Foata
Unix sysadmin, Oracle DBA

 

[AHinMaine]

I would think the dos2unix command would take care of this as well. Worth a shot anyway. --
Andy

http://www.nachoz.com

 

[jamisar]

there are several methodes
what's that ^?M ??
in vi :%s/^V^M//g
on cmdline: cut -c2-
sed -e 's/^.//'
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when they don't ask you anymore, where they are come from, and they don't tell you anymore, where they go ... you'r getting older !

 

[prowe]

Thanks guys.

Using dos2unix did not work.

Using 'cut -c1-2 file1' does not remove the first 2 chars from file1, although it 'works'.

Using vi (search for ^.M) or sed -e 's/^.M//' file1 >file2 work fine.

Paul