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

Ubuntu 14.04:

simple cat -e works just fine.

This displays Unix line endings (\n or LF) as $ and Windows line endings (\r\n or CRLF) as ^M$.