cp produces odd file name ending in "?"

[Alex Maynard]

Ken, Thank you. That worked perfectly. Alex

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Ken Burtch wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 19:00 -0500, Alex Maynard wrote:
>
> > The strange thing is a number of the files, such as
> > simuvolk/stock/campbell/LHREGHH.G end up having a "?"
> > at the end of the filename after they are copied.
> >
> > When I use the tab to type the file name this "?" becomes
> > a "^M"
>
> This hasn't happened to me.  However, "^M" is often a short-form for
> "Control-M" or a carriage return.  Windows and Macintosh text files use
> carriage returns at the end of line.  Linux uses a line feed character.
> If you created the script on Windows or a Macintosh OS, or if you
> copied-and-pasted the filenames from Windows or a Mac window but
> accidentally copied the end of the line along with the filename (where
> the black highlight extends to the right edge of the window), there
> might be stray carriage returns in the script.  On Linux the shell
> interpreter might think a stray carriage return at the end of the line
> is a part of the destination file name.
>
> To remove all carriage returns, use a command like
>
>   tr -d '\r' < original.txt > result.txt
>
> and see if the file size changed as a result with ls -l.
>
> That would be a place to start.
>
> KB
>
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