On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:04:13 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote: >> >>So, we are sending text data from mainframe to AIX system for further >>processing. >> ... >>But when we use SFTP process for transferring the file, we get trailing >>spaces added in the file after sftp process completion. >> > I'm astonished. I trust sftp to do no data munging. Are you certain the > spaces don't exist in the original file before transfer? Try the command > od -tx1 file-name > on the file before and after transfer.
I'd bet that the old FTP transfer had a site default of NOTRAILINGBLANKS. This automatically truncates the transferred line after the last non-blank character. There is no such option, that I know of, for sftp transfers. The "sed" command could be used before transferring to remove trailing blanks from the input file. Something like: sed -E 's/ *$//;' real-input-file.txt >no-trailing-blanks-file.txt Then transfer no-trailing-blanks-file.txt, like: sftp no-trailing-blanks-file user@remote:/dir/ectory/real-input.file.txt > > -- gil > -- If you look around the poker table & don't see an obvious sucker, it's you. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
