Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:48:04 -0800 (PST) | From | "Dr. Kelsey Hudson" <> | Subject | Re: binfmt_script and ^M |
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, John Kodis wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:40:22AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Somebody must have missed the boat entirely. Unix does not, never > > has, and never will end a text line with '\r'. > > Unix does not, never has, and never will end a text line with ' ' (a > space character) or with \t (a tab character). Yet if I begin a shell > script with '#!/bin/sh ' or '#!/bin/sh\t', the training white space is > striped and /bin/sh gets exec'd. Since \r has no special significance > to Unix, I'd expect it to be treated the same as any other whitespace > character -- it should be striped, and /bin/sh should get exec'd.
umm, last i checked a carriage return wasn't whitespace... space, horizontal tab, vertical tab, form feed constitute whitespace IIRC...
Kelsey Hudson khudson@ctica.com Software Engineer Compendium Technologies, Inc (619) 725-0771 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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