topic Re: special code in Operating System - HP-UX

special code

ivychung2 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:08:56 GMT

I am trying to ftp a text file from ux to pc , but I found that some files can
't be transfer , it seems there are some special code/character in the file eg. ^M ( this kind of code/character can't be read normally ), but I am not sure what is these special code/character , could advise is there any such special code/character ? thx

Re: special code

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:15:50 GMT

Hello,

These are Control characters when you transfer files from DOS to Unix. You can easily remove them.

# dos2unix inputfile outputfile

# sed 's(ctrl v ctrl m)g//g' old.file > new.file

# strings > good_file

-Arun

Re: special code

ivychung2 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:24:49 GMT

thx

how can I read such special code in the file ? so that I can remove it manually . thx

Re: special code

ivychung2 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:47:02 GMT

thx reply ,

please ignore the question.

Re: special code

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:46:59 GMT

If you are transferring to pc from ux machine then ^M characters are needed. To get that,

# ux2dox filename

will give a file name which work on pc. To view then,

# cat -v

print those characters.

--
Muthu

Re: special code

Arturo Galbiati — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:51:59 GMT

Hi,
probably if you will use ascii as transfer type the file will be correctly converted and
^M removed
HTH,
Art