[Clfs-support] xorg 7 script problem

[Randolph D Dach]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:45:50 -0400
Joe Ciccone <jciccone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 13:03 -0600, Randolph D Dach wrote:
> 
> > grep: done: No such file or directory
> > applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2
> > applewmproto-1.4.1
> > tar: applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2\r: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> The \r would be the CR added to the end of the line in a windows
> environment where a CRLF is a standard line ending. On linux a LF is
> standard. Use a program such as dos2unix to strip the inappropriate line
> endings out of the file.
> 
> Eg, each line in your file looks like this (windows)
> applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2\r\n
> where it should look like this (linux/unix/bsd/mac)
> applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2\n
 
This was the only method I tried that worked using dos2unix
kind of strange, if I used vim to create a file with sentences in the lines  such as in this email, it would save the file such that when I used cat -A file  it would show the lines as 
the black cat$
the brown cow$
however if I used vim to type and save the file
applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2
bigreqsproto-1.1.1.tar.bz2

and I used cat -A file it listed the lines as
applewmproto-1.4.1.tar.bz2^M$
bigreqsproto-1.1.1.tar.bz2^M$

using dos2unix removed the ^M$ which I assume is the \CR in windows  everything worked as it was supposed to.

this is the first time I've run into this issue.

Tks
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Randolph D Dach <rdach at telus.net>