If you are on a solaris box you can use the dos2unix command on the
file.
Jerry
>
>
> > Does anyone know how to transfer the file and not get the ^M character?
>
> Don't use MS OS in the first place?
>
> > I know there are ways of eliminating the control character once you have
> > the file in UNIX, but it is cumbersome when you have several files.
>
> What is cumbersome in :
> for f in * ; do mv $f $f~ && tr -d '\015' < $f~ > $f ; done
> ?
>
> (or if you're using csh:
> foreach f ( * )
> mv $f $f~ && tr -d '\015' < $f~ > $f
> end
> ?)
>
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