Hi Ben,
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:16:26PM -0400, Ben Roberts wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 22:12 -0400, Scott Brozell wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:55:53AM -0400, Ben Roberts wrote: > > I've
> > stumbled across three different versions of dacdif. Those in test and
> > AmberTools/test are the same as each other, and, it turns out, a sed
> > command is sensitive to line endings.
> >
> > What exactly is the issue with sed ?
>
> In the process of changing paths from using exe to using bin in my
> sandbox, I edited dacdif (which contained such a path, albeit in a
> comment) using a Mac GUI text editor. One of dacdif's sed patterns
> replaces whatever newline is indicated by ^M - I think a carriage return
> - with an empty string. But the ^M got automatically turned into a line
> feed for me, and then when using dacdif (as when running the tests) I
> would get nice little messages about how the a pattern isn't complete.
>
> In my own sandbox, I rolled it back. But in the course of my fixing all
> copies of dacdif, I ran into the fact that there were three independent
> copies of it. Hence this email.
Ok, thanks for fixing the problem and cleaning up the exe stuff;
sorry to hear that u have such ineffective tools as a Mac GUI text editor.
You must learn the ways of the Force,..., ie UNIX, ...
For a thousand generations, the UNIX users were guardians of the old Republic,
before the dark times, before the GUIs.
::)=
scott
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