On 8/4/07, Mic J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/07, Andris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I'm writing a set of small utilities as scripts, and I got a > > segmentation fault working on one of them. > > > > The script is suppoused to align text with spaces. Say you have this file: > > > > Foo1\tFoo2 > > Baaaaaaaaaaaar\tBar2 > > Baz > > > > Where \t are horizontal tabs. My script would replace the tabs with an > > adequate number of spaces to align foo2 and bar2. > > > > Right now it works with a file named "file" in the working directory. > > Of course this is only temporal. > > > > The problem is that I get a segmentation fault when I run it. That > > never happened to me with a shell script. And I can't see where should > > be a problem. > > > > I'm running OpenBSD 4.1-stable, GENERIC, i386. I don't know if it's > > important, but I didn't create a swap partition (I'm planning to > > change this). > > > > If someone could light me, I'd be very grateful. > > It doesnt segfault on my system i386 4.1 > however nothing happens with the file. > (i hope to avoid reading the code with more than half an eye ...) > > > and would it be very hard to change line number 4 (i think) > <file=file > to > >file=$1 > ? ;) > > michael >
The file should not be changed, it should only be converted to stdout. Plus, the script does not have to "work", since I'm still working on it. At least, I was; I don't want my system to freeze again (like it did once I run it). But it shouldn't not seg fault. And yes, I'll change that line :P Thanks for trying!
