Creating Unix scripts from Windows IDE

[angelshark]

Hello,


Is it possible to use a Perl IDE like Komodo on Windows to create scripts directly on Unix machines through a SAMBA share? When I try that, the resulting script always has a “^M” character at the end of each line and the script won’t run.

Anyone knows about a workaround for this?

Thanks.

 

[PaulTEG]

write a short script to rip out the \r or ^M characters

#!/usr/bin/perl

$file =$ARGV[0];
$/=undef;
open FH, "<$file";
$perlcode=<FH>;
close FH;
$perlcode=~ s/\r//g;
open FH, ">$file";
print FH "$perlcode";
close FH;

This isn't tested, but should be used as a command line script

There are tools like DOS2UNIX which would do the same

HTH
--Paul

 

[MikeLacey]

angelshark,

Some text editors have an option to save your script files in UNIX rather than DOS format - is there an option like that in Komodo?

Mike

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[angelshark]

Paul - thanks for script.

There’s no option in Komodo to save the script in Unix format. However I have found a workaround:

1. Create the script file in the Unix machine and add only the first line (#!/usr/bin/perl), save and close the file.
2. Open the file from the Windows machine using Komodo and work on the script.

Using this method no “^M” character will be appended to the end of each line after saving the script in Komodo.

Thanks.