Error confusing a newbie

[Keith Dart]

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Wayne Topa wrote:

> 
> >| Did you notice that the line numbers are off by one? The open is on line
> >| 6 and not seven. Perhaps your file starts with a newline?
> >| 
> 
> Give that man a Big Box of cigars.  
> 
> No, as a matter of fact, I had 'not' noticed.  As soon as I deleted the 
> first blank line it worked!  If you hadn't mentioned it I would not have 
> found that.  Line 7 was line 7 in vim and I let vim to do the counting. 
> Darn, was that stupid of me!!

Interesting. I had a similiar problem once. I once got a script that had
been "tainted" by being on an NT box. It had ^M's at the end of the line.
The latest VIM tries to be "smart", and doesn't show these to you by
default, so I had no idea. The script refused to run, because the OS was
looking for the executable named "/usr/bin/python^M" and couldn't find it.

This is interesting. I put the following in a file and made it executable. 

----------------------cut-----------------

echo "This runs!"
----------------------cut-----------------

In Linux, it runs with a shell! It seems Linux defaults to /bin/sh if an
executable text file is executed even without a #! as the "magic" number.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature...


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