> From: Rob Walker > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 5:29 PM > Subject: Re: bash scripting problem > > Eric Blake wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to Andrew Louie on 12/1/2006 3:17 PM: > > > >>> You have DOS line endings in these files. Use 'd2u' to > remove them. > >>> > >>> > >> Thanks! I would have never known that, > >> > >> now, can i run d2u on every file in my installation? > >> > > > > No, only run it on text files (it corrupts binary files, > such as *.exe). > > > d2u may also corrupt "text" files that need to have CR in > them. This includes bash scripts that need to parse or output CR. > > -Rob
Do you have a link to such a script? I don't mean a proof-of-principle; I'm sure a suitable example can be contrived. What I'm looking for is a shell script "in the wild" that purposely has a carriage return embedded in it for reasons other than ending a line of the script. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
