rsync - Sep 2003 - rsync files from Windows 2000 to Solaris 8

Hi,

I was able to rsync files from Windows 2000 to Solaris 8 but when I opened
the text files with vi on solaris, a '^M' char was appended to each line
of
the files. My question is how to get rid of that '^M' when rsync'ing
? I
suspect this is because Windows and Unix treat line feed/carriage return
differently, but I just do not want that '^M' shown in the files after
rsync'ed to Unix. Can rsync itself handle this?

Thanks for your help!

John Zhang

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:12:55AM -0400, Zhang, John
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was able to rsync files from Windows 2000 to Solaris 8 but when I opened
> the text files with vi on solaris, a '^M' char was appended to each
line of
> the files. My question is how to get rid of that '^M' when
rsync'ing ? I
> suspect this is because Windows and Unix treat line feed/carriage return
> differently, but I just do not want that '^M' shown in the files
after
> rsync'ed to Unix. Can rsync itself handle this?
No.

If you are going to synchronise the files you either live
with the <cr> in UNIX or live without it in DOS.

Some of the text editors in Windows will happily edit files
with <lf> for termination.

Vim has a fileformat option that may be of some help.


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