Problem when inserting a new line in a file by using redirection.

philipina · 11-08-2004, 08:33 AM

Hello,

I use the following command to insert a line at the end of a file.

echo "My sentence" >> myFile

After the execution of this line if I open "myFile" with vi I can see the caracter "^M" in blue at the end of each existing line.
How can I avoid that problem?

Thanks in advance.

Alain.

LasseW · 11-08-2004, 09:37 AM

Was this a Windows file originally ? The ^M is a carriage return character, used in DOS but not in native Unix text files. Anyway, you can get rid of them like this:

tr -d "\015" <My_file >My_new_file

philipina · 11-09-2004, 01:07 AM

Thank you it works fine.

Alain.