Unix Windows differences

[nivone]

HI,

I am going to write scripts for people, some use Windows, some use Unix.
I want to write the scripts on Windows. Is there a special text editor that I should use to make sure that the scripts will work on both platforms?
I heard there is a problem with Windows LF/CR. And I saw scripts that they seem like a one long line.
In general, can I write safely scripts with notepad and be sure that they will work? (beside the first line which indicates where Perl is installed).

Thanks,

Nivo

 

[raklet]

Check out this Google Thread. It presents several different solutions to this problem.

Summary:

transfer files back and forth in ftp ascii mode
use a better text editor that convert between dos/unix
use a perl script to strip or add the \r character

 

[siberian]

Two other general tips:

1) Do not depend on OS specific features. For example, don't call 'sendmail' to send email, use Net::SMTP.

2) Make sure your file paths are very configurable by the user or the script detects its OS and changes file paths accordingly. E:\bla\bla\bla won't work under unix and /var/log/messages will bomb under windows.

Good luck! I use EditPlus and have not had a problem with linefeeds.

 

[nivone]

HI,

Well, I've written and published my script, I saved it using TextPad as Unix, but I don't have a way to verify that it works under unix.
The link to the download page is:

http://n-e-w-s-flash.tripod.com/download.htm

It's a nice script for managing a news page for web managers, I could realy use hints on how to make it as valid as possible for Unix.
If someone has access to Unix server I would deaply appriciate it if he could install it and let me know what I'm doing wrong.
It's a huge request, I know, I'll understand if no one would do that, but I realy need help here.

Thanks,

Nivo

 

[siberian]

I downloaded it and ran the perl scripts at command line. I am not checking for content but they passed the interpreter, produced output and the line feeds seem correct.

My only thing would be to

A) put the files in a directory within the archive, I unzip'd it in a user dir and it just threw everything at that same level which is not 'polite' in a unix environment. it should create a directory 'newsflash' and have the files within that.

B) Use tar and gzip instead of zip

Looks fine though