Re: BASH should not choke on scripts with DOS newlines.

[Charles Sullivan]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:02:10 -0500
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:

> cwsulliv@triad.rr.com wrote:
> > Bash will currently fail to execute a script if (at least) the
> > first line of the script is terminated with the DOS newline
> > (\r\n) sequence, since the name of the shell command appears
> > to be "bash\r", which doesn't normally exist.
> 
> And thus the kernel (which is what inspects the #! line) isn't finding
> and running bash at all.  There's nothing bash can do about this if
> it's never invoked.  You can create a symlink named "bash\r" to make
> the kernel find bash by this name:
> # ln -s bash $'/bin/bash\r'
> You can also ask your OS distributor to install such a symlink by
> default.

Ahah!  I didn't understand it's the kernel and not bash which is responsible 
for this.  Many thanks for the clarification and for your suggestion 
about a symlink.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan