# bro unrecognized character error help

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163 "2018-01-25T23:14:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bibin\_Koshy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Bibin\_Koshy](https://community.zeek.org/u/Bibin_Koshy)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163/1 "2018-01-25T23:14:02Z")

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Hi

sorry i forgot to attach the localv2.bro and signature.sig file

Thank you  
Bibin

[localv2.bro](https://community.zeek.org/uploads/short-url/9zTN18wak73SYYWhAuaZMkqdg1P.bro) (3.75 KB)

[signature.sig](https://community.zeek.org/uploads/short-url/noDpyUNVIf09QJeTsl9NZteCZMJ.sig) (116 Bytes)

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**Author:** ![Azoff\_Justin\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Azoff\_Justin\_S](https://community.zeek.org/u/Azoff_Justin_S)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163/2 "2018-01-26T17:17:59Z")

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Your files have dos line endings. Convert them to unix using dos2unix or whatever.

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**Author:** ![Bibin\_Koshy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@Bibin\_Koshy](https://community.zeek.org/u/Bibin_Koshy)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163/3 "2018-01-26T21:16:30Z")

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Thank you so much Justin! This has done the trick! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-unrecognized-character-error-help/5163/4 "2022-05-06T15:45:32Z")

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