From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Ashlee Subject: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M] Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:48:08 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F4D0AF8.8090909@ashlee.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org (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 -------- Original Message -------- From: - Wed Aug 27 12:43:23 2003 X-UIDL: 3f4d06fb00000001 X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: Received: from virt19x.secure-wi.com (root@localhost) by ashlee.info (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7RJRP401864 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:27:25 -0700 X-ClientAddr: 217.116.160.18 Received: from ns.tumsan.fi (mail.tumsan.fi [217.116.160.18]) by virt19x.secure-wi.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7RJRMl01805 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:27:23 -0700 Received: from mouse.tumsan.fi (mouse.tumsan.fi [217.116.165.11]) by ns.tumsan.fi (8.11.2/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with ESMTP id h7RJR6210842 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:27:06 +0300 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030827221350.00b15820@217.116.160.18> X-Sender: freddie@217.116.160.18 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:14:28 +0300 To: Shawn Ashlee From: freddie Subject: Re: ctrl-M In-Reply-To: <3F4D0079.9060106@ashlee.info> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Status: O 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 > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >