How to find out line-endings in a text file?

Question

I\'m trying to use something in bash to show me the line endings in a file printed rather than interpreted. The file is a dump from SSIS/SQL Server being read in by a Linux

Answer 1

In vi...

:set list to see line-endings.

:set nolist to go back to normal.

While I don't think you can see \n or \r\n in vi, you can see which type of file it is (UNIX, DOS, etc.) to infer which line endings it has...

:set ff

Alternatively, from bash you can use od -t c or just od -c to display the returns.