On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:03:07AM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 02:18, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 10:31:20PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 21:27, Eben King wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Bob Stia wrote:
<snip>
> >
> > Do what I said above and let us know if the file contains those ^M
> > (carriage return) characters.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Paul,
>
> Ran the "less" command. There is nothing of which you speak. FYI I got
> the script from the SuSE list. I am positive it was created in Linux.
>
> Have a thought. I copied the script from the email message and then
> modified it using Kwrite. During that process I added line feeds etc.
> and deleted lines and seemingly unimportant spaces. I would think that
> a text editor like Kwrite would add the proper LF and nothing else.
>
> Question is: Is it critical for the amount of spaces/ tabs before or
> after a line remain exactly as in the original ?? I notice that in most
> scripts the first character in subsequent lines are spaced back from
> the actual start of the line.
>
> Maybe I should just create the script by hand using the original as a
> guide rather than taking the original and simply modifying it.
>
Spacing isn't particularly import in scripts, neither vertical nor
horizontal.
I'm very puzzled that you didn't find anything odd. You should have, and
I'll still bet there's something there we aren't seeing.
Your comments highlight one of the reasons programmers/coders don't use
things like Kwrite for writing scripts and programs. Programs like that
are often geared to writing word processing documents and the like, and
consequently insert formatting codes that make scripts and programs
impossible to compile and run. I think Eben also mentioned at one point
that your email client may be messing with the content one way or
another.
I agree, you should recreate the script in something that won't mess
with the content. There are tons of programs like this, designed
strictly to output straight text. Most of them are console programs.
There are vi, emacs, nano, pico, joe, vim, etc. etc. My biggest caution
here would be to ensure you copy things very exactly. One misspelling,
and you'll have a different problem than the one you have now. Spacing
isn't important vertically, but horizontally, it can be. Inserting a
space where one wasn't could wreck the script. Removing spaces where
they are already could do the same thing. Adding spaces where they
already exist (assuming they're not within quotes) would be okay.
Let us know what happens.
Paul
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