in reply to can't see ^M to process.

this is a problem with carriage returns and newlines between windows and unix OS. you need to convert the files <code> tr '\015\' file > file2

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Re^2: can't see ^M to process.
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 19, 2005 at 14:31 UTC 
    tr -d "\015" < inputfile > outputfile

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