If you have to work on a Unix box trough Windows (putty or any other ssh utility), you most likely have encountered the problem where pasting a text trough putty will result on Windows control characters (^M) at the end of the lines. This is actually very easy to fix.
1- Open the text with VI (or VIM)
$ vi {file_name}
2- Now we need to get in command mode by pressing colon “:” on your keyboard
3- Type in the following code (note that you to get ^M you need to press “Ctrl+v” and then “Ctrl+m” on your keyboard):
%s/^M//g
4- Hit enter and you should be good to go!!
Related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/vi.html
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