^M Character gets appended to every Line in jsp page

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Tue Apr 18 13:11:25 UTC 2006


Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Neil Cherry <ncherry at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I have a unusual issue is that I transfer the file from one server to
>>> another server
>>> through FTP Client, and when I open the downloaded file I see that at
>>> the end of every Line of the file I see ^M
>>>
>>> I do not understand at ALL
>>>
>>> I have choosen a Binary option while downloading
>> Are you transferring from Windows to Linux? If the file is a text
>> file then don't use binary. This will convert files that have been
>> created under Windows (such as Notepad) to have their line endings
>> converted to Unix line endings. Windows uses a line ending of ^M^J
>> (carriage return and line feed). Unix uses ^J (line feed).
>>
>> The binary transfer mode is meant for things where you want no
>> conversions to take place such as ISO image or an executable
>> file.
>>
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> 
> Thanks Neil for the quick response,I am transferring the file from
> Linux Box A to Linux Box B
> I tar the file on Linux Box A and ftp to Linux Box B and untar it on Linux Box B
> and when I open the File I see at the end of every Line ^M

Where did the file come from, sounds like the original file was
a Windows/DOS file. You can use dos2unix on the file like this:

dos2unix file

that will get rid of the ^M characters (and the ^Z that may lurk
at the bottom of the file).

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