Re: [Condor-users] Window EOL (\r\n) on submit versus Linux EOL (\n) onclaimed slots

[Ian Cottam <ian.cottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Matt, and others who replied.

I'm now using a wrapper to check for a shell script executable with \r 
chars in it (and drop them --the \r's-- before the script gets submitted).

I'm not entirely sure users (who only know a little Linux for Condor HTC 
purposes) should have to be completely aware of cross-OS EOL silliness, 
if we can protect them from it to some extent. These particular users 
would much prefer a Windows Pool to run their packages of choice, but, 
sadly, it isn't.

Of course, they still need to know enough to stick dos2unix commands in 
the script for any input text files. (I'm not sure such could be 
automated without running the risk of 'converting' binary input files too.)

cheers -Ian


Matt Hope wrote:
> > From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Chesal
> > Sent: 23 February 2010 18:32
> > To: Condor-Users Mail List
> > Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Window EOL (\r\n) on submit versus Linux EOL (\n) onclaimed slots
> >
> > Tell them to use a better text editor?
> >
> > If users are composing scripts on Windows to run on Linux they need an editor that can save with a different line ending format. There's a whole > slew of them out there. Free and not-free. I like notepad++.
>
> If they can't manage this you can always put a wrapper script in the way that checks if the executable is a script, checks for line endings and runs dos2unix on it.
>
> Seems like getting them to understand the difference is more useful though. If you're editing a bash shell script you should edit it in an editor that understands the right line ending.
>
> Matt
>
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