Windows files and Unix files (Redhat, Ubuntu, etc) are encoded in different ways. Namely, the end of line that is a part of most files created in Windows is not compatible with Unix. You can usually see this because there is a ‘weird character’ at the end of each line. ‘cat’ does not show it, [...]
Categories: Linux, Shell, System Administration, Windows
Tagged: character encoding, dos2unix, end of line, recode
