Re: Vanishing files ?

[Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>]

From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: Vanishing files ?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 16:24:31 -0700

> On May 28,  8:38pm, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> }
> } > Have you checked that you're not, for example, attempting to execute
> } > a program named "/bin/zsh^M" (where ^M is a carriage return)?
> } 
> }   With vim I loaded the script in question and did a 
> }   "set list", which displays anything, which normally is suppressed.
> }   After the "h" of "#!/bin/zsh" there is only a "$", meaning that
> }   this is the end of line.
> 
> That's not necessarily an accurate test.  If the "fileformats" option in
> vim includes the word "dos", then it will treat "\r\n" as end of line and
> hide the ^M from you, even with "set list".
> 
> }   Same results with another editor (Microemacs).
> 
> I don't know anything about Microemacs specifically, but most Emacs
> variants also are "smart" about automatically handling line endings.
> 
> Try "cat -v" on the script.
> 

THAT's it !!!
Thanks a lot, one nightmare less ! :)

Keep hacking!
Meino