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tjc · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:57 am

alexvd wrote:

TJC,

Thanks for the reply. Woahh, I know I have said this before but I am just a mere mortal who is probably quite stupid by your standards and has no business trying to do this with no knowledge of linux.

That being said "say whaaaattttt'.

Could Dave or yourself elaborate on what you said? Go slowly and step by step.

First, there is no need to repost the body of the script every time, and it makes reading this thread very painful.

Second here is the post I was talking about: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5530

Essentially you want to do something like the dos2unix function provided there. Here's a version of the central pipeline from that function to clean ALL control characters and the like (PUT YOUR OWN FILE NAMES IN FOR ORIGINALSCRIPT and CLEANSCRIPT!):

Code:

tr -d '\000-\010\013-\037\177-\377' <ORIGINALSCRIPT | awk '{print $0}' >CLEANSCRIPT

Then run this to see if any changes occurred:

Code:

diff ORIGINALSCRIPT CLEANSCRIPT

This will effectively purge the script of any stray "control characters" or the like. Doing "man tr" will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about the tr command.

BTW - I don't claim that this will solve your larger problem, only that it will eliminate certain potential issues caused by cut and paste via a MS-Windows system.

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