Not sure whether \r is handled in all unices. IINM AIX does not detect \r in vi or sed. In AIX we hadle it through ctrl + v and ctrl + m. Kosala On Feb 12, 2008 8:33 PM, Christian Grunfeld <christian.grunfeld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I do is %s/\r//g in vi or sed to remove the trailing CRs > > Cheers > Christian > > > 2008/2/12, Russell Millard Oliver <Tick@xxxxxxxx>: > > > SFTP does not handle ascii files, you'll need to do it in your client. > > Depending on which client you are using, there is probably a setting to > > tell it to transfer ascii files and which files it should consider ascii > > by extension. If you aren't moving the standard .txt files, then add > > your extension to that list. I noticed that some clients, like > > Filezilla, don't convert the files like it seems like they should. > > WinSCP works well for that. > > > > Good luck, > > Russ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mike Li [mailto:mike__li@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:13 PM > > To: secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: issue with transferring text files from windows to *INX using > > scp/sftp > > > > HI: > > Each line of text files transferred from windows to > > *INX using scp/sftp contains Control-M characters. > > It is a pain to run dos2unix utils when there are a > > few hundred files. > > I did not experience issue when using ftp to transfer > > files from windows to *INXs systems > > Is there a switch or ssh_config configuration setting > > to suppress the Crontrol-M during transfer ? > > Thank you > > Mike > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > ____________ > > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > > > -- Kosala -------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Views expressed in this mail are my personal views and they would not reflect views of the employer. -------------------------------------------- blog.kosala.net www.linux.lk/~kosala/ www.kosala.net