^M Character gets appended to every Line in jsp page

[alan]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Neil Cherry 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.

There is also a program called "dos2unix" that will allow you to convert 
to the proper line endings.

yum install dos2unix

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