From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Ashlee Subject: Re: Re: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M] Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:08:34 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F4D0FC2.10602@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 Apparently I have just been making life hard on myself. :) Thanks Jeff, I took out the returns and it works perfectly. Shawn -------- Original Message -------- From: - Wed Aug 27 12:59:29 2003 X-UIDL: 3f4d0dae00000001 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 h7RJxIl28704 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:59:18 -0700 X-ClientAddr: 208.24.120.33 Received: from dante.imagelinks.com ([208.24.120.33]) by virt19x.secure-wi.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7RJxHl28675 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:59:17 -0700 Received: from imagelinks.com (mcfarland.imagelinks.com [208.24.120.38]) by dante.imagelinks.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7RJxGK19021 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:59:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4D0D81.5030402@imagelinks.com> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:58:57 -0400 From: Jeff Largent Organization: Imagelinks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ashlee Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ctrl-M] References: <3F4D0AF8.8090909@ashlee.info> In-Reply-To: <3F4D0AF8.8090909@ashlee.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: 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 > > -------- 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 >> > > > > > > - > 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 > > -- Jeff Largent ImageLinks, Inc. Sr System Admin Melbourne, Fl 32935 (321) 253-0011 fax: (321) 253-5559