scripts

[Paul Howarth]

John Summerfied wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> There's a magic perl incantation you can recite. Or you can
>  cat olddir/script | tr -d '\r' >newdir/script
> for all and at the end
>  chmod +x newdir/*
> 
> A quicker way with vim:
> for $f in olddir/* ; do vim -c ':set fileformat=unix' -c :wq $f ; donw
> 
> Any more ways to change this light bulb?

How about:

sed -i -e 's/\r//' script

Paul.