At 11:34 AM +1200 2/4/01, hciR nellA wrote:
> iH
>
> Thanks. that was it.
>
> This seems like a real "turkey", since the script worked under OS 9 as a
> Mac file but not after moving it to OS X.
>
> thanks again
>
> On Sunday, April 1, 2001, at 03:23 PM, Ian Ragsdale wrote:
>
> > My guess is that it is a line endings problem - I get this error under
> > most unix systems if I use a file with macintosh line endings. Can
> > whatever editor you're using translate the line endings to unix?
> >
I joined this list while I was fooling with my first OSX perl script, and hit the same
problem. Actually it was the line endings in the data I was filtering (a
comma-delimited file), rather than the script.
I toyed with setting the end-of-record separator ($/) in the script, but in the end I
just did this:
cat ~/data.txt | tr "\r" "\n" > /tmp/data.txt
mv /tmp/data.txt ~/data.txt
Later I put that in a shell script.
God, it's good to back on a UNIX system. OSX really is the best of both worlds, and
it's only going to get better.
:o)
Cheers,
Andrew Duncan
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