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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I need to understand the differences between the bash shell and the Bourne shell Post 302368528 by awk_sed_hello on Thursday 5th of November 2009 03:41:41 AM
Old 11-05-2009
Thanks but the script worked in the ksh etc

The script worked in true unix shells. I have a copy of my script untouched by DOS and it has the same problem. I understand the CR/LF problem maybe the true unix shells deal with CR/LF wheras bash does not. Is vim some sort of bastardized version of vi?

bash is interpetting the line breaks as a directory\r "\r" is appended to the to the destination file name. Why does it not "Ralph" on the echo staments?

I think it best to not use bash if real shells are available IMHO so I prefer not to force a real shell to use bash.

I guess my work around is to insert # before the CR. that would be compatible with any shell even bash.

I hate to bash bash since I downloaded it for free but I don't think it is as good as real unix shells.

The awk commands work as proven by command line execution using bash and previous scripts run in the korn shell.

In a KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) script
Code:
 
touch Apple

results in
touch: cannot touch `Apple\r': No such file or directory

Code:
echo me thinks bash is not so good

result
me thinks bash is not so good(nonprinting characters)Smilie
 

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