Ubuntu 14.04 Cron outputs file names with ^M at the end

Question

When I pipe output to a file in a cron job using the > operator, it always appends a ^M to the end of the file name. This shows up as a ? when I run ls in the directory but

Answer 1

The problem is with the cron or script file itself: it has DOS line separators (CRLF) instead of Unix (LF only). You can fix it using dos2unix.