Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M]

[Shawn Ashlee <shawn@ashlee.info>]

Apparently I have just been making life hard on myself. :)
Thanks Jeff, I took out the returns and it works perfectly.

Shawn

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Why are you trying to put the returns in?
The way you are doing the echo between the " " the returns
will already exist.

echo -e "
# $2 start
:0:
* ^From: .*$TEMPFILE.*
/dev/null
# $2 end
" >> $PROCFILE

Shawn Ashlee wrote:
> (Freddie)Here is the snippet:
>         echo "$2" | sed -e 's/\./\\./g' > /tmp/add_to_proc.tmp
>         TEMPFILE=`cat /tmp/sed/add_to_proc.tmp`;
> 
>         echo -e "
>         # $2 start\r
>         :0:\r
>         * ^From: .*$TEMPFILE.*\r
>         /dev/null\r
>         # $2 end\r
>         " >> $PROCFILE
> 
>         echo "Sucessfully added $2 to $PROCFILE"
>         exit 0
> 
> This is just for a Linux box, it will not be moved to dos. The "only" 
> problem with the ctrl-M is that procmail will not read the file with 
> those in there. Like I said, it shows them in vi but not when you cat 
> the file.
> 
> Shawn
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> could you post up your script (or at least the part that does the writing)?
> 
>> I have a bash script writting to a .procmailrc file, but it is putting 
>> in ctrl-M's where I have \r or \015. You can see them in vi but not 
>> when you cat the file. It wouldn't be a problem, but procmail cant 
>> read it with those in there. I tried \n, but it adds alot of blank lines.
>> The archives mostly talk about compatability for dos/linux, but that 
>> doesnt help me.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn
>>
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