wisecracker, you can split long lines like that with a backslash:
This does not actually add newlines to the resulting string, as you see.
I hope I don't have code formatting practices imposed on my scripts... in my experience enforced formatting practices usually make things less readable and harder to edit.
I am actually well aware of that except I was wondering if the parser would chop at exactly 80 characters of which case the could corrupt the data if in mid flight inside a 4 character '\x??' string.
I treid it and it does corrupt.
Results:-
As it is mvdan has adequately explained his position.
I have scripts which I want to convert in Linux format.
Note these scripts are in txt format.But I want to convert them in Linux, as DBA's will be using this script.
Any command or utility which converts tht files in proper Linux format.
Thanks in Adavce.
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git-mergetool--lib
GIT-MERGETOOL--LIB(1) Git Manual GIT-MERGETOOL--LIB(1)NAME
git-mergetool--lib - Common git merge tool shell scriptlets
SYNOPSIS
TOOL_MODE=(diff|merge) . "$(git --exec-path)/git-mergetool--lib"
DESCRIPTION
This is not a command the end user would want to run. Ever. This documentation is meant for people who are studying the Porcelain-ish
scripts and/or are writing new ones.
The git-mergetool--lib scriptlet is designed to be sourced (using .) by other shell scripts to set up functions for working with git merge
tools.
Before sourcing git-mergetool--lib, your script must set TOOL_MODE to define the operation mode for the functions listed below. diff and
merge are valid values.
FUNCTIONS
get_merge_tool
returns a merge tool.
get_merge_tool_cmd
returns the custom command for a merge tool.
get_merge_tool_path
returns the custom path for a merge tool.
run_merge_tool
launches a merge tool given the tool name and a true/false flag to indicate whether a merge base is present. $MERGED, $LOCAL, $REMOTE,
and $BASE must be defined for use by the merge tool.
AUTHOR
Written by David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com[1]>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by David Aguilar and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. davvid@gmail.com
mailto:davvid@gmail.com
2. git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org
Git 1.7.1 07/05/2010 GIT-MERGETOOL--LIB(1)