10-26-2007
Spurious line feeds
Hi all,
I know this is **awfully** general but.....
I have a script which does, basically...
for file in `find command`; do
some stuff
more stuff
echo '.\c'
done
I want to output the '.' char just to give an idea of progress. However, it works fine for a while and then I start getting spurious line feeds on the screen. The script still works and terminates OK but.....
Has anyone seen anything like this before? I thought it *might* be the terminal emulator (putty) I am using but it does it via a standard telnet via (under windows) as well.
Solaris 2.8
ksh
cheers
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