On Thu, 2006-02-03 at 20:18 +0000, 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 > Regards > Azeem > You can run : dos2unix *script* Where *script* is the script file to fix. dos2unix is either in the dos2unix package or the unix2dos package.