Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I have got this shell script that writes certain data to a file after reading a few things from another file.

Code:

while read line
do
       name=$line
       echo "perl $line" >> file.sh
done < a.properties

Now the problem is that when I am running it in one UNIX server (SunOS 5.8) it is running fine.
But the same script is putting in ^M characters and also a new line character (probably) in between two strings when it is run in a SunOS 5.9 server.
Personally though I dont think it is an OS version issue.
Thanks a lot

use dos2unix to remove the ^M characters.


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

could not open /dev/kbd to get keyboard type US keyboard assumed
could not get keyboard type US keyboard assumed
This is the output that I get after running the dos2unix command.

That's just dos2unix complaining that it couldn't get any information about your keyboard layout, but it shouldn't affect the translation.

Thanks a lot guys ... but what is the reason behind this?
Is it because of the way keyboard has been configured in the 2 servers?