BenV's notes

Another annoying thing: morons that save their files with dos line endings.
Also known as “I’ve got motherfucking ^M in my file, AAAIIEEEEYGGrrgrll“.
I usually find out about this when bash complains about stuff like this:

benv@janeman:~$ ./bla.pl
-bash: ./bla.pl: /usr/bin/perl^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

(HAAAAAT!!!)

Solution:

benv@janeman:~$ vim kankerfile
:set fileformat=unix
:wq

(Don’t confuse fileformat with filetype, one is used for encoding, the other for things as syntax highlighting)

Solution 2:

benv@janeman:~$ dos2unix kankerfile

I never use this since I never have that piece of cancer called dos2unix, but some distros do.

Solution 3:

sed -ie 's/\r//g' bla.pl


That should fix it. On to the “let’s trash my home directory with my fancy new perl script that I just converted” 😉