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Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:11 am**

Hi,

I have some problems with whitespace characters in a txt document.
I have converted the newline characters \n\r but still have some problems with whitespace.

It is identified by ^M.
How do i get rid of it?

Thanks,

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:09 am**

When you move files from windows to (l)unix, you always have problems with white characters.
Thats because windows and linux handle with spaces differently.

Sed can be found on most linux/unix distributions.

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sed s/\r// hello.txt > goodhello.txt

you can also do the same with perl:

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perl -pie 's/\r//g' hello.txt > goodhello.txt

probably the easiest way is dos2unix,

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dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

Let us know if it works.

Posted: **Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:34 pm**

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sed s/\r// hello.txt > goodhello.txt

works fine,

Thanks

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