Re: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M]

[Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>]

Remove the "\r" bits... The newline that follows each
of them is already embedded in the string which you are
echo-ing, so the file should look like you expect...

Another way to do this that might be slightly
easier than the echo statement would be to
use the "here-document" feature (although
a performance nazi might point out that the
binary for cat takes up slightly more memory
than that for echo):

cat > $PROCFILE <<EOF
# $2 start
...
...
EOF


On 08/27/2003 12:48 -0700, 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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>>	To: Shawn Ashlee <shawn@ashlee.info>
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>>	Subject: Re: ctrl-M
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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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