Last line gets deleted

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I was using the following option to clean up the ^M characters in a file that was FTPed from Windows:

  • dos2unix
  • sed 's/^M//g'

The ^M characters are removed but the last line is also getting removed. Any idea why this is happening.

Satish

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Perhaps the last line didn't have a newline at all? That will interfere with some unix tools, many of which expect entire lines.

tr doesn't care about lines, though, so try this:

tr -d '\r' < inputfile > newfile
echo >> newfile
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Thank you. That was the isssue.

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