Question

I have a script on a centos server and I wrote the script on the server using VIM. The script is to edit a configuration file. When I check the configuration file after it has been edited, there is a ^M at the end of every line that was NOT edited. The lines that were edited are fine.

        cat hibernate.properties | 
    sed -i.bk \
    -e 's%\(^hibernate\.connection\.url\=ristor:jdbc:postgresql:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1/\).*%\'1$dbname'%' \
    -e 's/\(^hibernate\.connection\.username\=\).*/\'1$dbuser'/' \
    -e 's/\(^hibernate\.connection\.password\=\).*/\'1$pws'/' hibernate.properties

This is the code that is being used to edit the configuration file. Why is it putting ^M at the end of every line that is NOT edited?

Answer 1

The ^M being shown are probably windows-style line endings on some lines. Try to run your file through dos2unix before running your script.

For example:

dos2unix hibernate.properties