-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Saturday 15 Sep 2007, Puneet Lakhina wrote: | Hi,
Hi, | I have been copying text files between Windows XP and Unix (AIX) Systems | over the last few days at office and i find ^M characters at the end of | each line. I figured after googling that this was due to the fact that | windows and unix use different characters for new line. Now I had to | replace these chars in Unix. I found the way to do it using vi, but couldnt | find a way to like do for a number of files all at once. Any solutions?? | The way to do it using vi was with the following command in vi. :%sCtrl-V | Ctrl-M//g Try dos2unix and unix2dos utilities to convert text files. | Why is it that the two OSes use different new line characters. And is there See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline | a way for me to prevent it at the source end i.e. at Windows level only. I | use notepad in windows. Since i access the unix system through ssh, so vi | is probably the only option I have, cant use gedit or something. | | -- | Puneet `-- Ashish Shukla - -- Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" आशीष शुक्ल weblog: http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ,= ,-_-. =. | The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does | ((_/)o o(\_)) | not justify depriving the world in general of all or | `-'(. .)`-' | part of that creativity. | \_/ | - Richard M. Stallman | We've so many people in India, that we're able to route each network packet manually. - nobotz to wahjava ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Freed.in | Freedom in technology & software | http://freed.in/register ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG64esHy+EEHYuXnQRAm+SAKDbyyTVKfIeknId95da7mEzZvGgPwCgn2Nd qJDeM/NDW9nCZ5t3zXzYWQ0= =lfkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
