Hello all.

I am currently working on a script that is doing some simple processing
of files. I have it set up to create a file with a math expression in
it so that i can use BC to get the answer, a typical one looks like
this:

#file
-34.23+403.3

this file is getting created from the paste command, merging two
previous files. The problem is that it as adding the end of line
character ^M to the end, and bc throws an error every time it reads the
file. Ive been looking for a way to remove this character...i have
tried some sed one liners that ive come across but none seem to work.
any would be appreciated. thanks!

ryandle@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am currently working on a script that is doing some simple processing
> of files. I have it set up to create a file with a math expression in
> it so that i can use BC to get the answer, a typical one looks like
> this:
>
> #file
> -34.23+403.3
>
> this file is getting created from the paste command, merging two
> previous files. The problem is that it as adding the end of line
> character ^M to the end, and bc throws an error every time it reads the
> file. Ive been looking for a way to remove this character...i have
> tried some sed one liners that ive come across but none seem to work.
> any would be appreciated. thanks!
>

The command dos2unix removes that character.
Or use a filter tr -d '\015'

Janis