1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I made a small change to a UNIX script. When I tried to run it I received the following message: /bin/ksh: ^M: not found /bin/ksh: ^M: not found /bin/ksh: ^M: not found As ^M is a non printing character, I don't know how to discover where it is missing. How can I correct thiis... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello all, I have two files, that I suspect may contain hidden characters (EG, three spaces instead of a tab). Does anyone know of any tool that can display this (I have tried using diff, but I'm not quite sure it would do the job) (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello All, I'm trying to parse through a file and display all the hidden characters, including all carriage and line returns. I usually use cat -v, but this doesn't display the carriage and line returns. Does anyone know how this can be done? Thanks Khoom (5 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can anyone seem to know how to find out whether a UNIX text file has 'hidden' control characters? Can I view them using 'vi' by some command line options? If there are control characters in a text file which are invisible/hidden.. then how do I get rid of them? Your intelletual answers are... (6 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody. Im really new in shell scripting. Im working with RedHat 4. I have begin to do some scripts to test the posibilitys but Im fancing a disturbing problem. some times the lines that I write add the return character or end-of-file ascii character to the command or argument tha... (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I know that cat -v will show me hidden characters in a file.... I for some reason seem to think that there's a bash command that will show me hidden characters in a variable in a script? Or am I just imagining it? Thanks in advance (8 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am completely new to perl programming. My father is helping me learn said programming language. However, I am stuck on one of the assignments he has given me, and I can't find very much help with it via google, either because I have a tiny attention span, or because I can be very very dense. ... (4 Replies)

8. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hello everyone. When I copy some configuration settings string from MS_Word to putty from my personal pc to a remote machine, it appears that I copy some hidden symbols, which at first, cannot be seen and appear as hidden. Some java programs did not start, and after investigation I found that: ... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello. I use this command : rsync -av --include=".*" --dry-run "$A_FULL_PATH_S" "$A_FULL_PATH_D"The data comes from the output of a find command. And no full source directories are in use, only some files. Source example... (2 Replies)