Re: Script polluted by DOS formatting
William Pursell wrote:
Francesco Pietra wrote:
A script downloaded to a desktop i386/etch/gnome from Amber web site,
edited on
the desktop with gnome text editor, then sent scp to a computing
machine amd64,
turned out to be polluted by DOS formatting.
The computing program was prevented from reading the polluted lines.
I tried
dos2unix scriptfilename
which failed to clean the script. Opening the script with vim did not
reveal
the problem. It was only
When you open the file in vim, type:
:set fileformat
It will probably report:
fileformat=dos
Then type
:set fileformat=unix
When you write the file, the <CR><NL> dos style line terminators
will be replaced by <CR> only.
I suppose you mistyped "<LF> only".
Mike
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