[NTLUG:Discuss] Why would a command stop working?

[Rick Matthews]

> It was probably a switch from spaces to tabs in one
> of the files that did the dirt.

Actually, I scanned across the 3.5 meg file and it looks like about half
of the records terminate with '0D 0A' and the other half with just '0A'.
One of my two external sources probably sent me a windows file.

But that's OK, the code's in there now!


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of Steve Baker
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:58 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Why would a command stop working?


Rick Matthews wrote:
>
> > You could use 'tr' to delete characters in the
> > range \000 to \011, \013 to \037 and \177 to \377.
>
> That's what I did and it successfully removed the garbage; it runs
> properly again. Thanks for the suggestion!

It was probably a switch from spaces to tabs in one of the files
that did the dirt.

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