Re: transferring file in binary mode

you're prolly talkin' about windows EOL \r\n (u'll see your "junk" char as ^M) 
if so 
perl -i -pe 's/\r$//g' filename will clean it 

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:10:20PM -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
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> > we are using OPenSSH version of  "3.7.1p1" for remote execution between unix
> > and windows.
> > 
> > here we are using SFTP for transferring files from windows to unix box.
> > 
> > But the files which gets transferred to unix side contains junk characters
> > as there is no provision of binary transmission in sftp.
> 
> I think you have this opposite. It is always transferred in binary as 
> there is not any "ascii" conversion (like in ftp clients).
> 
> > can anyone help us in this regard as how to eradicate the junk char while
> > transmission of files.
> 
> Search for dos2unix or use perl or awk or tr or sed. Google can quickly 
> find examples:
> http://kb.iu.edu/data/acux.htm
> http://www.vasudevaservice.com/documentation/how-to/converting_dos_and_unix_text_files
> 
> If that is not what you are referring to, please provide some more details 
> or examples.
> 
> (By the way, it seems like this list is way slow for me. Sometimes I don't 
> see emails for days.)

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