frenco schreef, Op 29-11-2011 19:57:
I have a problem with a character. I think it's a conversion problem between
dos and unix.
I have a variable that is a float value.
When I print it with the echo command i get:
0.495959
But when I try to make an operation on that value with the bc command (I am
not sure how to write the bc command).
echo $mean *1000 |bc
I get:
(standard_in) 1 : illegal character: ^M
I already use the dos2unix command on my .sh file.
I think it's because my variable have the ^M character (not printed with the
echo command)
How can i eliminate this error?
Hi,
Dos2unix will convert only DOS line breaks to Unix line breaks. Meaning
\r\n to \n.
When you see a single \r (^M), without a following \n, this is a Mac
line break.
Dos2unix will leave Mac line breaks alone.
So you need to run mac2unix instead of dos2unix on the file.
regards,
--
Erwin Waterlander
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/
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