Re: perl script
On Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 11:43:58AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote:
> mike:~$ invoice -n
> Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3.
> (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?)
>
> ------ Snip ------
>
> The only transfers this script has gotten have been accomplished by cp. If
> I put a # at the end of line 3, the error just moves up one. Has anyone
> seen/solved this error?
You can strip them out with:
dos2unix filename
or
mv filename filename.orig; tr -d '\015' < filename.orig > filename
or a bunch of other methods.
vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't.
Hamish
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