Not counting the hours wasted because you emailed someone a shell script with Unix line endings, they opened it in their Windows email client and text editor (Notepad, namely,) then SCP'd it to a Linux computer, and it will no longer run in Bash?
I think it's more than hundreds of thousands of hours then :-( -Mark C. On 4/30/09, Robert Lewko <[email protected]> wrote: > When I was referring to hours wasted it was the time writing programs to > account for the two character line ending as opposed to the single character > for mac and *nix. > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Robert Lewko wrote: > > > I may be mistaken on this, but I think they use a \r for a line ending.� > > > At least its only a single character.� I will bet that hundreds of > > > thousands of hours have been wasted on dos/windows because they use \r\n > > > for their "newline". > > > > > It depends on the application. Notepad++ and metapad are Windows > > programs that have no problem with either format. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
