script issues from suse to RHEL5 AS

pingpong · 02-13-2008, 08:41 PM

We recently migrated one server from SUSE OS to RHEL5. The problem is the shell scripts do not produce the desired outcome

on the command line the output does not have any issues. Example:- S1=`cat $FILE1|grep -v /|grep [0-9]` from the prompt echo $S1 is 129 but code when fired in a script using bash or ksh outputs S1=$'129\r'. The same has been working fine on SUSE OS. Does this have to do with user profile/env etc?

Thnaks in advance for any valuable input

doublejoon · 02-14-2008, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pingpong

We recently migrated one server from SUSE OS to RHEL5. The problem is the shell scripts do not produce the desired outcome

on the command line the output does not have any issues. Example:- S1=`cat $FILE1|grep -v /|grep [0-9]` from the prompt echo $S1 is 129 but code when fired in a script using bash or ksh outputs S1=$'129\r'. The same has been working fine on SUSE OS. Does this have to do with user profile/env etc?

Thnaks in advance for any valuable input

Try

Code:

S1=$(/bin/cat $FILE1|/bin/grep -v /|/bin/grep [0-9])

I think the shell is trying to interpret those special characters in the command line substitution
So try the following for that

Code:

/bin/echo ${S1}