SUMMARY: how to find DOS formated files in solaris

From: Dan O'Callaghan (ocalld@eads.com)
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 10:22:43 EDT


Hi
Thanks to Carsten Knudsen, markus Mayer and Brad Morrison.

They came up with:
# find . -type f -print | xargs grep -l '^M$' | xargs file | egrep 'text|script'

The important thing to note, you cannot simply type shift+6 and shift+m to get the ^M character, that produces 2 separate characters. To produce the ^M, use Control+v followed by Control+m; grep will then find this character.

Markus also pointed out that gnu's version of file, will list DOS types. I couldn't find a binary for this and make failed when i tried to compile it on my solaris 10 workstation.

Thanks all for the help.

Dan.

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 16:31, Dan O'Callaghan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a solaris 8 system that people have over a long period of time, ftp
> files from windows.
>
> I'm now finding that many of these files are still in DOS format i.e. ^M at
> the end of each line.
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> How can i do a search to find all the DOS formated files???
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan.
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