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Subject: RE: bash scripting problem
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:07:43 -0600
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> 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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