Is there is any single line command to recursively find the .ctl file in all the directories and remove the control m characters from it?
dos2unix was born to solve this problem.
You can locate all the target files by find or whatever program, then
dos2unix filename
Background of this problem (by Dominique )
Let's explain what this is about: in UNIX, ENTER is translated as chr(13) (ASCII-code of carriage return), in DOS (Windows) ENTER is translated as chr(13)+chr(10) (carriage return combined with newline character). When you open a Windows textfile in UNIX, you see that chr(10) character (which you don't want). The mentioned dos2unix command searches for that chr(13)+chr(10) and removes the chr(10) characters. – Dominique