Extracting variables from within ks.cfg, interpreted from command-line

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Tue Mar 21 15:02:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Dan Trainor wrote:

> Were you able to see the link to the kickstart which I was using?

Yes, but I wouldn't be surprised if the pastebin site auto-corrects line 
endings to make text files readable.

> I'm interested in hearing about your CRLF-line-ending concerns, as it seem 
> that both my ks.cfg and ks-script files in /tmp carry a ^M after every line. 
> It's been my experience that control characters where they do not belong, make 
> really funny things happen.

Shell scripts do not like CRLF line endings. Are you using a Windows 
editor? Did you try running everything through dos2unix?


Cheers,
Phil




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