Re: Fwd: Problem with redirecting cat command output to a file

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pratiksha Powar on 9/11/2007 12:14 AM:
> Problem 1:
> --------
> Following is the code (in a shell script)which redirects find command output
> to a file called "src". But this command generates a file called "src?"
> instead.
> 
> SOURCE_PATH="src"
> rm -f $SOURCE_PATH
> #Getting all OPS src files
> find ../../com/onmobile/noc/common -name *.java > src

Do you have spurious carriage returns (\r) in your script file?  Unix
shells treat it like any other file name character, even if it doesn't
show up visually.  So it probably created the file 'src\r', which ls then
displays as 'src?' with its default quoting options.  One way to confirm
this would be using 'cat -A src*'.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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