[DCPM] windows newlines in #! line

[Simon Waters]

Steve Marvell wrote:
> This started as a CGI problem. Apparently, some of the Perl scripts a
> particular company provide are littered with Windows newlines. This
> casuse a bad interpretor error.
> 
> This is also the case if the script is run by hand.
> 
> I understand that the present version of a Apache the clinet is using
> handles this. 
> 
> I take this is a shell problem, but I think it could be solved if
> Apache prestripped them
> 
> Anyone got any ideas?

The usual cause is incorrectly transferring the files to the server. ftp
will correctly translate text files, but if they are shipped up as a zip
file then the transfer is skipped.

Just;

find . -name "*.pl" -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

Or whatever appropriate pattern is required for the find.