LVMcollect script from Steven Burgess

[John Jimenez_2]

I tried to run this script and it bombed off on line 487 ( a line that has only a "| \". I think because when a saved it on my hard disk as a text file and then ftp'd it over to my test server it inserted carriage return. I have not been able to get that copy w/o these carriage returns

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

Try this,

cat old_script |col -b > new_script

Now run the new_script.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[harry d brown jr]

John,

the "|" means pipe the output of the previous command to the next.

The "\" means that the next command, or continuation of the current command line, is on the next line. This is not put in there by ftp or anything else.

of course you can use dos2ux on it if you think there are "^M"'s in the file.


live free or die
harry

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

You can also try,

/usr/bin/dos2ux old_script >new_script

Then run the new_script.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[John Jimenez_2]

Thanks guys for the info and lesson. I will give it a try...

[Darrell Allen]

Hi John,

To avoid problems caused by the difference in how UNIX and DOS terminate lines in text files (UNIX uses a newline, DOS uses a linefeed and carriage return), always use ascii mode to ftp text files between your PC and UNIX.

Darrell

[John Jimenez_2]

No, The dos2ux did not work. Can you guys get this script to run on you machines

[Sandip Ghosh · Accepted solution]

Yes I am having that script and it is running fing. Send me your email address. I will send it to you.

Sandip
sghosh@barrlabs.com

[Patrick Wallek]

There were LOTS of lines that had a CR/LF where there shouldn't have been one. I've cleaned up my copy and it is attached here. Hopefully it stays cleaned up.

I did check this and it did run successfully.

[John Jimenez_2]

Thanks Sandip and Patrick it works super now :)