Re: issue with transferring text files from windows to *INX using scp/sftp

Good morning Mike.

> Each line of text files transferred from windows to
> *INX using scp/sftp contains Control-M characters. 
> It is a pain to run dos2unix utils when there are a
> few hundred files.

I can definitely see that.

> I did not experience issue when using ftp to transfer
> files from windows to *INXs systems

ftp is a different animal.

> Is there a switch or ssh_config configuration setting
> to suppress the Crontrol-M during transfer ?

Not that I have been able to find (but I'm no sftp/scp guru). If you 
were going the other way *NIX to windows then it would be trivial to 
write a shell script to do all that for you. For example:

# just put all the files to send into the directory called 'tosend'
# and create another directory called 'sent' and be in in the
# directory right above the 2 tmp directories when you run
# the script

for file in `ls tosend`
   do
      [command-to-remove-cr-from-file] tosend/$file >$file.tmp
                        or
      [command-to-remove-cr-from-file] tosend/$file -o $file.tmp
      scp $file.tmp user@hostname:/path-to-directory/$file
      mv tosend/$file sent
      rm $file.tmp
   done

This is an inelegant script and I'm sure that the 'real' *NIX admins out 
there could do a better job (after they stop laughing), but you get the 
idea.

So, how does this help you running under windows? Well, there is a UNIX 
environment you can install from microsoft but I personally use Cygwin 
(cygwin.com). Just install that and you're away to the races.

Hope this helped.

Cheers.

frank.vcf
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