[ale] dos file in linux?? WTF?

[Geoffrey]

tewkewl at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> Hey guys...
> 
> How does linux/vi know that a file is considered to be a 'dos' file?
> it really never was a dos file...it was a script written on an hp box...but during the move (tar/zip) when we run it on linux, it reports "bash: ./secng.sh: No such file or directory"

I've seen this happen with perl scripts I've pulled down from an NT
box.  What's probably the case the script starts with something like:

!#/bin/sh

and the extra dos characters change the name of /bin/sh to
/bin/sh<garbage>, hence the error you're getting.

I don't know how the dos characters got their but strip them with your
favorite tool and your script should work.  I use the following....

for fn in $*; do
	tr -d '\015' < ${fn}.dos >  ${fn}
done

> 
> when the file is plainly there and with execute permissions.
> 
> when I VI the file, vi reports [DOS] at the bottom where it has the file name.  Anybody have a clue?
> 
> -Patrick
> 
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