Yes to Windows editing. I had no idea lines were ended in LF only in Unix. Thanks ... this is very useful and has always been a mystery to me.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon Geard Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to script automate unTAR of packages On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 13:49 -0500, Mikie wrote: > Hello list, > > I have made a script file at: > > http://www.mikienet.com/linux/LFS-6.5-untar-list > > ... to unTAR my packages so I don't have to do it manually. > > When I run it I get: > > tar: /mnt/lfs/sources/zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2\r: Cannot open: No such file or > directory That "\r" (carriage return) at the end of the file says your scripts is probably saved using Windows-style end of line characters, a CR-LF pair. Under Unix, only the LF is used for end of line, and the CR is treated as part of the filename. To correct it (by removing the CRs from the file), run the following command: sed -i "s/^M//" LFS-6.5-untar-list And don't use Windows to edit Unix shell scripts or config files if you can avoid it. It just ends up causing problems like this. As a hint, running the 'file' command on any text file will tell you if it's using CRLF end of line characters. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
