10-17-2009
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Originally Posted by
jp2542a
I downloaded the script onto both my my Centos (linux) system and my windows (cygwin) system. It worked fine on my Linux system. On the windows system, there were translation errors. There are hidden characters...
I really don't know what's left to try then.. for another test, I used terminal, executed a touch command to create split2.awk and then used TextEdit to retype the code character by character with no tabs and I still have the same exact problem.
Are there any other possible solutions? I never thought it would be this much of a hassle -- again, thank you so much for the help.
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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 444: 09 Jun 2011 LESSECHO(1)