On PCs (and on Mainframe computers) the end of a line is represented $ cat foo this is a test of the terminal that is shot from guns. ForĮxample, if you have a UNIX file named 'foo': Some UNIXĬommands, like od(1), represent this character with a ' '. There are two distinct means of representing the end of a line in a

The reason for the two different modes is that There are two different modes for transferring files with FTP: 'ASCII'Īnd 'binary' mode. I have noticed that in Filezilla there is a setting for ASCII vs.

Therefore I wonder which is a SAFE way to transfer data via FTP which is probably encoded in different ways and contains different characters. I also prefer SFTP or even better SSH but some clients' hosts simply do not offer it. Lets assume I only have FTP connection available. I had this issues in very few files causing the project not to run anymore. While 99.9% of the files were totally o.k. adding unwanted spaces or special UTF-8 characters being corrupted) after downloading and uploading files of a project from one server to local (Linux Mint) and up to another.

Recently I wasted almost two hours before realizing that the file upload with Filezilla corrupted the files (e.g.

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