Re: How to remove invisible character?

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Author: Jon M. Hanson
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Subject: Re: How to remove invisible character?
Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> I have an ascii text file that seems to have hex 015
> characters embedded at the end of each line and I can't
> figure out how those seemingly invisible characters got
> there or how to remove them. Their presence causes a
> shell script that I am trying to use on the target file
> to not work. It works on example (a) below, but not on
> example (b). When I open these files with a text editor
> (kwrite), the contents looks identical on both (a) and (b)
>
>
>
> $ hexdump -cb exo-20:12 (a)
> 0000000 E X O - 2 0 : 1 2 \n
> 0000000 105 130 117 055 062 060 072 061 062 012
> 000000a
>
> $ hexdump -cb exo-20:12 (b)
> 0000000 E X O - 2 0 : 1 2 \r \n
> 0000000 105 130 117 055 062 060 072 061 062 015 012
> 000000b
>
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Use dos2unix. The \r\n end-of-line is DOS style. The dos2unix command
will strip the \r out.
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