How to remove carriage return and newline from a variable in shell script

Question

I am new to shell script. I am sourcing a file, which is created in Windows and has carriage returns, using the source command. After I source when I append som

Answer 1

You can use sed as follows:

MY_NEW_VAR=$(echo $testVar | sed -e 's/\r//g')
echo ${MY_NEW_VAR} got it

By the way, try to do a dos2unix on your data file.