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Old 10-29-2008
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Hi this is my first time on this forum so sorry if I posted this to the wrong area.

I need help with the following. I have a basic FormMail cgi script I use. When I upload the script using filezilla, there is one line in the script that changes. The line should read &get_date; instead it reads e"t_date;

I am using putty to access the server. I see the script in the server and if I enter dos2unix and the script name I see the whole script.

How do I change the e"t_date; to get_date; using the dos2unix prompt, what is the command for that?

Anything you can do would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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Old 10-30-2008
dos2unix is designed for converting the Windows line terminators (carriage return and line feed) to Unix line terminators (line feed only). It doesn't (usually) make any other changes, so it won't help you here.

The simplest thing would be to hop into your favourite Unix editor and change the file manually. It's strange that &ge is changed to e" though... did you upload the file from Windows? What is the output of file filename.cgi?
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Old 11-01-2008
Are you sending the file using Filezilla in ascii or binary mode. if you send in ASCII it may be interpreting the & as a control character. If you transfer in binary then use dos2unix to convert line terminators to UNIX or any other string manipulator to remove the line windows line terminator.
 
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