Hi, I receive a file from Unix server to my windows server,this file is unix style I try to create a copy of this file via windows batch script: @echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion CD%1 if exist "A_COMBINED.TXT" del "A_COMBINED.TXT" if exist "B_COMBINED.TXT" del "B_COMBINED.TXT" copy *A A_COMBINED copy *B B_COMBINED where A file actual name is 20081003_A and B file actual name is 20081003_B When i run the script the file is copied but at the end it has an carriage return character. Please help me I am new to DOS scripting I don't want this carriage character added in the end because i have job which aborts due to this extra carriage return value in the end of the file. Thanks In Advance Thanks In Advance

copy /b *A A_COMBINED copy /b *B B_COMBINED

Exactly what do you mean by "this file is unix style"? Exactly how are you determining that the carriage return is being added during the copy process and not from the file transfer process? How are you transferring the file between the servers? If via an ftp connection, are you transferring in ascii mode or binary?

well by unix style file i mean my file doesnot have new line character associated so first file has record1 record2 and second file has record3 record4 the above command combines the file as follows record1 record2 record3 record4 whereas i want as record1 record2 record3 record4 Thanks In advance Thanks In Advance

The usual definition of a Unix file is that each of its lines is terminated by a single LF character (instead of CR LF on Windows.) Your file has a different problem. Its last line is not terminated. Therefore, when you append the next file to it, it simply continues the last line of the previous file. This can be fixed thus: Prior to combining all your files into one with copy/b, add an empty line to the end of each file using the following command: for %%f in (*A) do (echo.>%%f) Warning: make sure all files matching "*A" are text files, and that they all have unterminated last lines. If they don't, you'll be adding an unwanted blank line at the end.

My files are not txt files and when executed this command on the files the files had no text in it.:( is there any way I can add newline character at the end of the file I have tried this script for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%t in ('dir/b/a-d *%2*') do ( type %%t >> COMBINED.TXT ) ) but I face the same issue as above. Please guide Thanks for your time and patience Thanks In Advance

> My files are not txt files I meant text files, as opposed to binary files. It doesn't matter what their filename extension is, as long as they're just plain text, not word documents, not PDFs etc. > and when executed this command on the > files the files had no text in it.:( Oops, sorry about that, I meant to write echo.>>%%f not echo.>%%f as that would overwrite the file instead of appending a line to it. I hope you tested this on copies, rather than the originals. Once you've added the blank line to all your files (assuming they all end with an unterminated line) then the previously mentioned copy/b command will merge them.