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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting running a looping script for all files in directory Post 302233495 by Annihilannic on Sunday 7th of September 2008 11:07:43 PM
Old 09-08-2008
Ah-ha!

The ^M holds the key... you must be creating these scripts under Windows and uploading them to Unix, right? Windows and Unix use different text file formats. Windows ends lines with Carriage Return and Line Feed characters (CR/LF), whereas Unix just uses a Line Feed (LF). You need to convert the script file(s) to Unix format using dos2unix windowsfile > unixfile or tr -d '\r' < windowsfile > unixfile.

You may find life simpler if you learn how to use a Unix editor and edit them directly on the system where you are running them.
 

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os_type

os_type(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  os_type(3alleg4)

NAME

       os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       extern int os_type;

DESCRIPTION

       Set by allegro_init() to one of the values:

	  OSTYPE_UNKNOWN    - unknown, or regular MSDOS
	  OSTYPE_WIN3	    - Windows 3.1 or earlier
	  OSTYPE_WIN95	    - Windows 95
	  OSTYPE_WIN98	    - Windows 98
	  OSTYPE_WINME	    - Windows ME
	  OSTYPE_WINNT	    - Windows NT
	  OSTYPE_WIN2000    - Windows 2000
	  OSTYPE_WINXP	    - Windows XP
	  OSTYPE_WIN2003    - Windows 2003
	  OSTYPE_WINVISTA   - Windows Vista
	  OSTYPE_OS2	    - OS/2
	  OSTYPE_WARP	    - OS/2 Warp 3
	  OSTYPE_DOSEMU     - Linux DOSEMU
	  OSTYPE_OPENDOS    - Caldera OpenDOS
	  OSTYPE_LINUX	    - Linux
	  OSTYPE_SUNOS	    - SunOS/Solaris
	  OSTYPE_FREEBSD    - FreeBSD
	  OSTYPE_NETBSD     - NetBSD
	  OSTYPE_IRIX	    - IRIX
	  OSTYPE_DARWIN     - Darwin
	  OSTYPE_QNX	    - QNX
	  OSTYPE_UNIX	    - Unknown Unix variant
	  OSTYPE_BEOS	    - BeOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOS	    - MacOS
	  OSTYPE_MACOSX     - MacOS X

SEE ALSO

       allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4)

Allegro 							   version 4.4.2						  os_type(3alleg4)
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