Originally posted by: Pharthiphan

Hi All,

while opeing a text file via vi after doing a ftp or scp from linux or windows using bin mode.

Im getting a ^M Character on the end of all lines.

Please help

Regards,
Pharthiphan
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Originally posted by: blanckea

Hello,
You should transfer text files in Ascii mode, or the conversion is not done.
If files are already on AIX and you want to remove the ^M you can use :
sed -e "s/^M//g" file1 > file2
On the command line the ^M in the sed command must be donne using : <ctrl>+V then <enter key>.
Regards
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Originally posted by: apeasecpc

Since AIX does not have the dtox or xtod commands provided in other types of UNIX, I created simple awk scripts to replicate them.

dtox:
#!/bin/ksh
#dtox
awk '{T=$0;if(length($0)>0) {if((substr($0,length($0),1)=="\r")&&(length($0)>1))
T=substr($0,1,length($0)-1);if((substr($0,length($0),1)=="\r")&&(length($0)==1)
) T="";}printf("%s\n",T);}' $1

xtod:
#!/bin/ksh
#xtod
awk '{T=$0;if(length($0)>0) {if((substr($0,length($0),1)=="\r")&&(length($0)>1))
T=substr($0,1,length($0)-1);if((substr($0,length($0),1)=="\r")&&(length($0)==1)
) T="";}printf("%s\r\n",T);}' $1

=>dtox {source} >{destination) - strips ^M character
=>xtod {source} >{destination} - adds ^M character back in
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