Topics: AIX, System Admin
Control-M
When exchanging text files between Windows and AIX systems, you often run into ^M (CTRL-M) characters at the end of each line in a text file. To remove these ugly characters:
tr -d '^M' < [inputfile] > [outputfile]To type the ^M character on the command line: press CTRL, then type v and the m.
Another way: download this zip archive: controlm.zip (1KB).
This zip archive includes 2 files: unix2dos and dos2unix, which you can run on AIX:
To convert a Windows file to Unix file:
# dos2unix [filename]
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