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# 8  
Old 04-08-2011
There is a typo in the sed command. Should contain only three slashes, not four. Should be :
Code:
sed 's/$/\r/'

instead.
This command will add a carriage return (\r) to the end of line ($), which will make it windows-like.
# 9  
Old 04-08-2011
When I said "remove", I meant "add" (being unix2dos, not dos2unix)Smilie

There's a slash too many:
Code:
... | sed 's/$/\r/'

# 10  
Old 04-08-2011
Ok, it works pretty good, except a couple things:
Instead of the output being
Code:
winfile

it comes out as
Code:
winfile?

.
After entering the command at the command line, it responds:
Code:
: command not found

.
but looking in "winfile?", the command executed beautifully.
# 11  
Old 04-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by LuminalZero
Ok, it works pretty good, except a couple things:
Instead of the output being
Code:
winfile

it comes out as
Code:
winfile?

.
After entering the command at the command line, it responds:
Code:
: command not found

.
but looking in "winfile?", the command executed beautifully.
Let me guess, you edited the script in Notepad? Your file is probably named "winfile\r"
# 12  
Old 04-09-2011
Not in notepad, in vim. Somehow it had saved it as a dos file. I used unix2dos on it and now it works flawlessly though. Thanks for the help everyone. Smilie
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