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sed command on several file in folder

Hello,

How to execute below command on several files in a folder :
sed 's/$/\r/' server_*.txt > server_*.txt

Thank you

Regards

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simon3270

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arnold

What are you trying to do?
Are you sure you are not inverting?

cat -v
Do you have ^M and that is what you want removed?

Dos2unix will fix left behind \r when transferring files

If you are using FTP to transferfiles, to avoid this issue an ascii cms before transferring text files.,

sed -pi.bak to create a backup file on which it acted.

Your attempt creates ambiguity

bibi92

ASKER

Hello
I have to change LF (\n) with CRLF (\r\n)
Thank you

Regards

arnold

Your attempt is to add a \r at the end of the line. \n\r is the end result of your script

Are you certain you currently do not have \r\n?

sed -pi.bak -e 's/\n/\r\n/g' list_of_files

How are you seeing that it is not present?

simon3270

Hi Arnold, my sed command changes \n to \r\n as we hoped.

Also, 's/\n/\r\n/' doesn't do anything, since the substitution command never sees the "\n" (it only processes the text before the \n).

bibi92

ASKER

Hello,
Are you certain you currently do not have \r\n? no because files txt are generated on linux servers and transferred on windows server for import them.
So I will test Simon script tomorrow.
Thank you

arnold

When you transfer files from linux to windows, what are you uaing?
If FTP, make sure to use ASCII mode

How does this ahow.up?