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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix-problem of New line character Post 302591310 by methyl on Thursday 19th of January 2012 07:17:00 AM
Old 01-19-2012
The longer-term solution is to always use Text mode FTP when transferring text files from a Microsoft platform to a unix platform. A Microsoft text file has every line terminated with two characters "carriage-return" then "line-feed", whereas a unix text file has every line terminated with one character "line-feed".

In your script a quick fix is to filter the input stream with "tr" to remove the unwanted carriage-return characters.

Code:
#! /bin/bash
clear
rdCount=0;
cat ps5.txt | tr -d '\r' | while read myline
do
  if [ -z "${myline}" ]; then
    echo "line is empty"
  else
   echo $myline
   let rdCount=$rdCount+1
  fi
done
echo "COUNT=$rdCount"

Not sure why you are posting the uncorrected script following your previous thread.
 

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COLORS(3)						   libbash colors Library Manual						 COLORS(3)

NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors. SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color> colorReset colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text> colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text> DESCRIPTION
General colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty. The function list: colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline) colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added Detailed interface description follows. Available colors: Green Red Yellow White The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red). FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color> Sets the current printing color to color. colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal. colorPrint [<indent>] <color> Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline). Parameters: <indent> The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position. <color> The color to use. <color> The text to print. colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added. EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline: Using colorSet: $ colorSet green $ echo 'Hello World' $ colorReset Using colorPrint: $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo Using colorPrintN: $ colorPrintN 'Hello World' AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net> SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1) Linux Epoch Linux
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