On 04-Mar-2003/08:21 -0800, "Myhre, Julie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes I believe it is a questionmark, if an ls tells me anything...you're >getting at the idea of ? being a wildcard single character - does >Linux/the shell change unprintable characters to questionmarks to flag a >problem? > >I've cut and pasted a listing of the script...we were able to see the >behavior with just a single call to the executable in the script, so >it's just a one-liner. And below that is my listing of the output file >(/tmp/blat/DKO.1). > >cti-disc-test1:jmyhre] cat DKO.sh >./gfClient cti-disc-test1 5050 . DKO_001.txt /tmp/blat/DKO.1
Did you create that script on a DOS/Win machine? If so, the line may end with CRLF instead of the *nix standard LF. The CR would be displayed as a question mark by ls. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list