This file had ^M and there was no new line character after each number so(in vi it looked like horizontal text), so in this case the tr command should also add a new line character where it replaces the ^M , there may be a way to do this with tr which I am not sure .
Sudheer
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:51 AM, Ryo Furue
<furue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Sudheer and Ferret users,
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sudheer Joseph
<sjo.india@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It looks like your data has ^M and other windows formatting embedded in it
I sometimes face the same problem. The easiest way to fix such a datafile (on a Unix or Linux machine) is probably
$ cat originalfile.txt | tr -d '\r' > fixedfile.txt
'tr -d' deletes the specified character from the input and '\r' denotes "carriage return", meaning control-M (^M).
If your system has a "dos2unix" command, that does the same thing.
Regards,
Ryo
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