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RE: bash scripting problem
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:07:43 -0600
- Subject: RE: bash scripting problem
> 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
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