On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:57:17AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > I am having problems with my AWK script. It used to work a > couple of months ago (on potato), but not anymore (on woody). > I have no idea why, since I seldom use it. I tried both > mawk and gawk. > > Apparently, $0 includes a "^M" character at the end. > Thus, for an empty line: /^$/ has to be changed to /^.$/ . > Is there any wrong environment on my system? > > Any clue?
What file are you trying to read. If it is mail coming from fetchmail, there were some change which causes ^M in mail file. I fixed it by "with stripcr" option in /etc/fetchmailrc. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
