Comments on: Linux: how to remove trailing ^M (carriage return)

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:46:52 +0000

@J – thanks, that is indeed so – I had no spaces in names, thus no quoting.

Do not forget to redirect the output of tr (this part seems missing from your comment): “tr -d \r < ${f}~ >$f”

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:36:23 +0000

Incase file names/directories contain any spaces, lets add quotes to the multiple files script:

for f
do
mv “$f” “${f}~” && tr -d “\r” “$f”
rm “${f}~”
done

This script will now work great with find and the -exec parameter.

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:34:04 +0000

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