Your Question: What Is M in Linux File?
Contents Viewing the Certificate Files in Linux Shows ^M Characters Appended to Every Line. the File in Question Was Created in Windows and Then Copied over to...
Viewing the certificate files in Linux shows ^M characters appended to every line. The file in question was created in Windows and then copied over to Linux. ^M is the keyboard equivalent to r or CTRL-v + CTRL-m in vim.
What does M mean in Linux?
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The ^M is a carriage-return character. If you see this, you’re probably looking at a file that originated in the DOS/Windows world, where an end-of-line is marked by a carriage return/newline pair, whereas in the Unix world, end-of-line is marked by a single newline.
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