Hi

I wonder is someone could tell me how i avoid having those special charachters that look like a square replaced by a carriage return when coding in Bash Script???

I have written a program to extract data from a txt file and create a new txt file - bu i keep getting these weird little icons that look like a square in place of carriage return. Please assist.


thanks in advance

What program are you using to edit the file?

If it will not compromise the security of your system, could you submit a copy of the script? To be able to see the code you have written would be a great help to solve the problem.

As a side note: if any commands you try to execute from the script are longer than the terminal line settings (probably 72 characters per line), then the command line must continue on the next line. Bash requires a special character to tell it that the command continues to the next line. That character is the backslash (\).

So, if the command line must continue to another line, end each line with [ \]. That's spacebar backslash (a space between the last character of the command line, followed by the backslash character) then continue the command on the next line. You may repeat the [ \] as often as needed to complete the command.

Another side note: you are using Mandriva. What is your native language, and what is the language in which Mandriva was installed. It could also be that you did not install language support for the language you are using.