Problems caused by editing text files in Windows

[Catherine Lai]

Hi everyone,

Some people have been experiencing issues when editing or creating text files on their Windows computers and then trying to use them on the PPLS AT servers. The issue is that the way linux and Windows encodes text files is slightly different: Windows adds some extra end of line characters that you can’t generally see in the editor, but can make the scripts behave weirdly.

See: https://kb.iu.edu/d/acux

We tried the tr option and it worked on sshatl, but the other suggestions probably will too:

 tr -d '\15\32' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txt

cheers,
Catherine

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