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 the bash shell, try cat -v . This should display carriage-returns for windows files.

(This worked for me in rxvt via Cygwin on Windows XP).

^{Editor's note: cat -v visualizes \r (CR) chars. as ^M. Thus, line-ending \r\n sequences will display as ^M at the end of each output line. cat -e will additionally visualize \n, namely as $. (cat -et will additionally visualize tab chars. as ^I.)}