Re: How to write file containing shell script?

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dalton Hunter wrote: > "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> wrote: >> Make sure you use unix-style line endings (just \n and no \r). > > Hi, thanks for your reply. I should have been a little clearer. The file is > created as a result of a PHP script not in TextPad. I am only comparing them > in Textpad afterward. For example the script contains ... > > <?php > > // BEGIN PHP SCRIPT THAT GENERATES SHELL SCRIPT > > $sbackup = "#!/bin/sh > ... multiple line shell script in here ... > "; > > ... and it creates the file fine but when I go to execute the shell script > it returns ... > > sh: ./shell_script: No such file or directory Right. I think the "No such file or directory" message is because it's failing to find an interpreter called "/bin/bash\r". Assuming you're creating the PHP file in Textpad, save it with Unix line endings rather than Windows line endings. This is a Textpad option (I'm sitting at the OSX machine so I can't check exactly where it is at the moment, but trust me, I've used it earlier today). I think that when your string literal breaks onto the next line, PHP is obediently including your Windows-style line endings in $sbackup and thus the shell_script file. > I tried to add a \n at the end of each line in the PHP script but no > luck. Windows line ending = \r\n Unix line ending = \n So adding a \n won't help. You need to get rid of the invisible \r, using the method described above. miguel