Re: what is ^M at the end of a line?

That ^M is a line feed, or well the windows version of a line feed.

There are several different ways in which to write a line feed and of course
to make our lives better *nix, Dos/Windows and Mac all have their own way of
writting them.

So Jeff's suggestion relies on a little application that simply finds ad
relapces all the dos/windows ways of doing things like line feeds and
replaces them with the unix version of the same.

If you feel like doing this in perl a simple regex will do the trick, at
least for the line feeds, but there is more windows fun to be had, like the
way MS Word replaces ceretain characters like " ' - and even ... with a
special charatcer because they are estetacly more pleasing to the reader of
the document. I am sure there are more examples and dos2unix covers them
all.

So if it is a single file and only a one of then dos2unix is the easiest
way, if you want to do it in perl then you will most likely have to use a
regex because not all moachines will have the dos2unix applicaiton
available.

Regards,

Rob Coops

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Remy Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> hi all,
> i have a text processing script that can work with a file but cannot work
> with another file that has the same content.
> as i compared the 2 files, i found the file that cannot work has a "^M" at
> the end of each line. what is this? is this what made it not work?
> by the way, i'm under unix.
> thanks....
>
> -Remy
>