scripts

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:18, azeem ahmad wrote:
> hi list
> i got some scripts. their behavior is much wierd, they dont execute, when i 
> run them they say
> bad interpreter
> and if i open them and copy them into a new file which i create using vi 
> then the same script executes.
> it seems to be a problem of encoding like ASCII etc
> can i change them using any tools
> any suggestions

They were probably created under windows and transferred over
with carriage-return, line-feed endings intact.  If you
load them into vim, type :set fileformat=unix and save
again it should fix them.  Or use the dos2unix program.

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  Les Mikesell
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