Study Notes

When use vi to open the text files created in Windows, I found there’s “^M” in the end of each line. Such file is not able to recognized by Linux, it is also why I could not import the Iplanet LDIF files created in Windows to OpenLDAP. There are two methods to resolve this issue.

First use vi edit this file to instead of “^M” string combination. Or second way maybe the more easier, use “dos2unix” command to convert.
# man dos2unix
Dos/MAC to Unix text file format converter.
“iconv” is a tools to convert big5 to UTF-8 character set.