On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> If you download and save the script, it might end up with dos style end of
> line characters. If you get an error when trying to run it that includes
> "\r", you've encountered this the problem. You can remove the "\r"
> characters
> by running the following command from the same directory as the script:
>
> NOTE: To get the ^M in the line, type Ctrl-V and then Ctrl-M. Typing ^
> and M
> will not work (copying and pasting the line will not work).
>
> sed -i 's/^M$//' vcl-install.sh
>
> I run into files using ^M for DOS/Microsoft line endings so often (esp.
in files sent to me by faculty) that I wrote this little Perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# Read in file which uses ^M for end of line and substitute \n
my ($a );
while ($a = <>) {
$a =~ s/\r/\n/g; #substitutes a new line for a ^M
print $a;
}
I call it rmm.pl and it's so easy to remember/type ./rmm.pl <in >out
--henry
> Josh
>
> On Friday, January 16, 2015 4:40:56 PM you wrote:
> > I've been working on an installation script that will be released with
> 2.4.
> > I'd love to have some feedback on it. I've attached it for anyone who
> would
> > like to test it.
> >
> > **Do not run it on a system with VCL already installed.**
> >
> > It performs some checks to attempt to detect if VCL has already been
> > installed and will exit if it thinks so. However, I'd hate to have it
> > overwrite someone's existing setup if there is a problem with it.
> >
> > The script is currently configured to download a test archive from my
> home
> > space on people.apache.org.
> >
> > Let me know how it works for you and if you have suggestions for it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Josh
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> > North Carolina State University
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