Re: New line not recognized

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:46:01 PM UTC-6, stosss wrote:
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>> A couple weeks ago I had 4 files that I created on my Linux system and
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>> did not move them or share them and some how they were showing a ^M
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>> when I was doing a grep and sed search and replace from the shell.
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> The problem wasn't "showing a ^M", that's pretty common. The problem was that EVERY line was terminated ONLY by a ^M and there were NO linefeed characters in the file at all, so the file was showing as one long line with a bunch of ^M characters.
>

Okay :-) thanks. I didn't realize that happens a lot with the "^M".
They showed up again in a file last night but not the continuous
single line. Then they were gone without me doing anything. I have
never actually seen them when opening the actual file. Only when doing
a shell command that out puts to the screen. Like grep, cat, head,
tail etc. I have also never seen them in a file created when using a
redirect away from the screen.

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