Programming problem

[Goatee]

I decided a while ago that I was going to make a python code optimiser and that I was going to call it codegoat ('cos it eats the rubbish).

I made a start, and then after reading about a thousand 'teach yourself python' and 'teach yourself shell script' things I created a sort of launch script in shell. In general it is fine but for some reason this line:

Code: Select all

echo $2 > /home/me/workon.txt

is adding in a blank line underneath the text. This would be fine but $2 is a filename and both bash and python say the file doesn't exist. If I go and remove this empty line in kate and run the next module then it's ok but it'd be better not to have to.

If anyone knows how to get rid of the blank line it would help a lot.

Thanks in advance

[cvill64]

Usually the easiest way to work on files at getting rid of all lines, is to read the lines in and then read the lines out to STOUT with no lines in perl, let me know if you need to know more information

[backtrace]

Just use "echo -n <your subliminal messages>". Easy as that.

Damn, I hate posts with so little text in them, and ranting about all sorts of unnecessary things here? Nah, let's not do that.

[Goatee]

Thanks, it's fixed now.

I thought i'd start with backtrace's solution (which worked) because my perl is dire but i'll take note yours cvill. I do note down every code snippet posted here, it's where I got >.

It's great to get such good help so fast!
Thanks again