[ale] dos file in linux?? WTF?

[Geoffrey]

tewkewl at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> You guys were absolutely right.  I compiled dos2unix and ran it on the file and presto changeo, the file magicaly shrunk!  (I can only assume it took the linfeeds out.  and the script runs fine now...
> 
> now if somebody can explain to me why the hell bash cares enough about linefeeds to tell me the file doesn't exist when it plainly does! :)

I was late in on this one, but the error is complaining because it can
find the #! command at the top of the script, because the extra chars
changed what the shell sees as the shell the script should be executed
with.  You'd see the same error if you had a script like:

#!/bin/foo-sh

date

That is, as long as /bin/foo-sh doesn't exist.

The error is complaining that it can't find /bin/foo-sh

> 
> -Patrick
> 
> Michael Golden <naugrimk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:14, 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"
> >
> > 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?
> 
> My only guess on how it could do that is to check whether lines end with
> just CR or CR/LF. You can use the dos2unix utility to fix that if that
> is the problem. If that's not it then I don't know. :-/
> 
> Michael
> 
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