scripts

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 22:26 +0000, azeem ahmad wrote:
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> >From: John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: scripts
> >Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:22:53 +0800
> >
> >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?

Even faster.
dos2unix  &   unix2dos
command line tools to do this automagically for you.



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> >John
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> thanks Mr. Mikesell, it worked, othewise i was in a lot trouble
> Regards
> Azeem
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