On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:18, azeem ahmad wrote: > hi list > i got some scripts. their behavior is much wierd, they dont execute, when i > run them they say > bad interpreter > and if i open them and copy them into a new file which i create using vi > then the same script executes. > it seems to be a problem of encoding like ASCII etc > can i change them using any tools > any suggestions They were probably created under windows and transferred over with carriage-return, line-feed endings intact. If you load them into vim, type :set fileformat=unix and save again it should fix them. Or use the dos2unix program. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
