Operating Systems :: Unix :: using mv in shell scripts |
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By: roe1and  |
Date: 18/02/2008 15:31:04  |
Points: 20 | Status: Answered Quality : Excellent |
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i came across this today at work while trying to rename files using a shell script. we run a mixed win/unix operation here which is probably not ideal, anyway. the file being renamed is just a text file but it has a .tab extension. when you double click these they open in an application called textpad. if i run a shell script over these to rename them windows won't automatically open them in textpad anymore. the script file is called do.txt and all it is is: mv 1234.tab 1234_u.tab any ideas? |
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| By: VGR | Date: 19/02/2008 07:40:49 | |
Type : Comment |
| are the file attributes (+permissions) copied correctly ? if you run the script as root or via sudo, isn't it modified to be owned by root/root ? à part from this, I can't see no reason hy your problem should arise. |
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| By: roe1and | Date: 28/03/2008 16:25:20 | |
Type : Answer |
| i found out today that the shell scripts i was writing was being saved in windows text format. so when you look at it in unix the end of the lines contained ^M which was causing all the drama! when i removed all those everything worked perfectly. i blame bill gates, of course! | |||
| By: VGR | Date: 28/03/2008 18:34:39 | |
Type : Comment |
| yes, that's why I developed a unix2dos() supplement to the dos2unix() function this said, you should use a text editor on windaube that copes with the single LF (unix-style) ; not to name it, Wordpad is the one which comes to mind. Better editors like UltraEdit or NoteTab Light are also capable of maintaining themselves the end-of-line specifics for each file, even when edited on windaube. just my 0.02 U$D |
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