scripts
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 2 21:22:53 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:18, azeem ahmad wrote:
>
>>hi list
>>i got some scripts. their behavior is much wierd, they dont execute, when i
>>run them they say
>>bad interpreter
>>and if i open them and copy them into a new file which i create using vi
>>then the same script executes.
>>it seems to be a problem of encoding like ASCII etc
>>can i change them using any tools
>>any suggestions
>
>
> They were probably created under windows and transferred over
> with carriage-return, line-feed endings intact. If you
> load them into vim, type :set fileformat=unix and save
> again it should fix them. Or use the dos2unix program.
>
There's a magic perl incantation you can recite. Or you can
cat olddir/script | tr -d '\r' >newdir/script
for all and at the end
chmod +x newdir/*
A quicker way with vim:
for $f in olddir/* ; do vim -c ':set fileformat=unix' -c :wq $f ; donw
Any more ways to change this light bulb?
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John
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