you're prolly talkin' about windows EOL \r\n (u'll see your "junk" char as ^M) if so perl -i -pe 's/\r$//g' filename will clean it
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:10:20PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > Precedence: bulk > List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: mailing list [email protected] > Delivered-To: moderator for [email protected] > Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:10:20 -0600 (CST) > From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: kknegi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: transferring file in binary mode > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:43:06 -0700 (MST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > we are using OPenSSH version of "3.7.1p1" for remote execution between unix > > and windows. > > > > here we are using SFTP for transferring files from windows to unix box. > > > > But the files which gets transferred to unix side contains junk characters > > as there is no provision of binary transmission in sftp. > > I think you have this opposite. It is always transferred in binary as > there is not any "ascii" conversion (like in ftp clients). > > > can anyone help us in this regard as how to eradicate the junk char while > > transmission of files. > > Search for dos2unix or use perl or awk or tr or sed. Google can quickly > find examples: > http://kb.iu.edu/data/acux.htm > http://www.vasudevaservice.com/documentation/how-to/converting_dos_and_unix_text_files > > If that is not what you are referring to, please provide some more details > or examples. > > (By the way, it seems like this list is way slow for me. Sometimes I don't > see emails for days.) --
