[solved] shell scripting error (qmail related)

Gezim Hoxha gezimetc at telus.net
Tue Sep 20 01:24:40 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 16:37 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> When I cut and paste the above script into 'od -c', I see that the
> '-' characters are not simple ASCII characters but a 3-byte sequence
> "\342\210\222" in octal.  That explains what you are seeing.  How
> on Earth they got that way is another question altogether.

Actually, what I did, was copy the script from Evince and into vi, so
that's how the - characters got all wacky. The solution was, to just
type it out.

Thanks for your help,
-Gezim




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