Logan Linux, On Wednesday July 09, 2003 07:42, Logan Linux wrote: > Sorry, > > None of these worked. Still get the same error. Do the \n's show up in VI? <snip> > > >> Im getting an error when running a script > > >> > > >> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory > > > > > > If you ever see that in the shell, it means that the script you're > > > running has DOS linefeeds in it. Use either "dos2unix" or > > > "tr -d '\n' < oldfile > newfile" to remove them. <snip>
Try it with a "tr -d '\r' oldfile > newfile". Unix uses Line feeds not carriage returns. To see the line endings I use "od -c filename" Here's an example... [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ cat bin/script.sh #!/bin/sh echo "I'm a script" exit 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ script.sh : bad interpreter: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ od -c bin/script.sh 0000000 # ! / b i n / s h \r \n \r \n e c h 0000020 o " I ' m a s c r i p t " 0000040 \r \n \r \n e x i t 0 \r \n 0000054 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ tr -d '\r' < bin/script.sh > bin/script_nr.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ od -c bin/script_nr.sh 0000000 # ! / b i n / s h \n \n e c h o 0000020 " I ' m a s c r i p t " \n \n 0000040 e x i t 0 \n 0000047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$chmod 755 bin/script_nr.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ script_nr.sh I'm a script [EMAIL PROTECTED] brian]$ HTH. -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dee-web.com/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
