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

The 'script' utility output normally has ^M and other control characters
embedded in the output. To have all  these control characters removed, 

  try: $ col -b < script.txt > newfile.txt

Regards,
Siva

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 16:45 +0800, Remy Guo 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