<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> You might try running the dos2unix command on it. That's how I've always gotten rid of the ^M's. --TP On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 15:38 -0700, NONE NONE wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Ugh... So the new line chars are wrong I guess... Is there a simple way to fix that? I opened the test script in emacs and saw a bunch of ^M on the ends of the lines... I deleted them and saved, and then it ran fine. But now the main file won't run and emacs isn't showing ^M anymore.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Les Mikesell <<A HREF="mailto:les@futuresource.com">les@futuresource.com</A>> Date: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:17 pm Subject: Re: [K12OSN] creating accounts > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 17:02, NONE NONE wrote: > > > Now, I must be an idiot because the script doesn't work (though > now the commands themselves, pasted individually, do!). > > > groupadd grade1 > > > > + groupadd $'grade1\r' > > is a not a valid group name > > What did you use to edit the script? That doesn't look like plain > text. > -- > Les Mikesell > <A HREF="mailto:les@futuresource.com">les@futuresource.com</A> > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <A HREF="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</A> > <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <" target="l"><A HREF="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <A HREF="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</A> <A HREF="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A HREF="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>