Problem after moving script from windows to linux

[AamerAli]

Hi Josh,

its probably too late to ask this question.

However i am facing this problem currently.

Could you let me know that how to see/remove these invisible characters.

are you using a tool other than VI?
Please help me out in running my scripts.
Thanks.

Aamer

Final Followup:

I have to assume the problem with the scripts was from moving them from the other UNIX box - presumably there were some invisible characters after the first line that were causing problems or something (because I could copy the scripts from one terminal window to the other - and then they would work).

As for the nohup, after I had ensured that the script, in it's entirety, without error from the perl script it called, worked, the nohup command seemed to function fine.

-Josh

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, Aamer!

Hey, I've moved your post to create a new thread because the one you replied to was almost 4 years old already. Don't hesitate to add any additional details that might be needed for someone to help with solving the problem that you are experiencing.

[coopstah13]

probably it has ms-dos line ending characters, you need to use the dos2unix utility to convert it

[AamerAli]

Thanks Ozar,

coopstah13,

I don't know even what you mentioned dos2unix.

My simple problem is: i ftp my running script from linux to windows and then to other linux box.

But my script is not working showing different errors.

Please let me know the solution and pls also how to coz i am have been just moved to this section.?

Thanks
Aamer

[oz]

It will be helpful to those that try to offer assistance if you can post any error messages that you are receiving.

[coopstah13]

do you have ssh access to the box? there should be a command called dos2unix you can use to convert from ms-dos format file

if not you will have to do it on the machine you are uploading from, probably you can do it in a cygwin environment on the windows box

if you are choosing to do it from linux, most likely you will have to install the dos file utilities, what you need to install depends on your distro

[AamerAli]

Hi,

I tried dos2unix file1.sh file2.sh which was successful but when i tried executing the script it closed the ssh.

Thenk even i tried running my ksh script locally on ported linux box but my terminal was again closed. please help me out.

whereas i don't know about cygwin environment. can you please explain.

Aamer

[coopstah13]

does your script have exit in it? possibly it is closing the connection, I don't know what your script does so I can't tell you

cygwin provides a unix like environment on windows, a lot of the gnu tools are compiled as windows executables, and work similarly

[AamerAli]

Hi coopstah13,

There is no exit statement in script.

However lot of thanks for your time and support.

I am currently downloading cygwin.

if possible, pls let me know a particular example of converting a script in cygwin.

Thanx.

does your script have exit in it? possibly it is closing the connection, I don't know what your script does so I can't tell you

cygwin provides a unix like environment on windows, a lot of the gnu tools are compiled as windows executables, and work similarly

[coopstah13]

i'm not sure if it is installed by default or not, but you need to just use dos2unix, its pretty easy, just dos2unix <file>