docs/80649: Wrong command for CRLF->LF conversion in porters-handbook

Vasil Dimov vd at datamax.bg
Thu May 5 09:20:07 UTC 2005


>Number:         80649
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Wrong command for CRLF->LF conversion in porters-handbook
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 05 09:20:05 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vasil Dimov
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
DataMax
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD sinanica.bg.datamax 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #5: Mon Apr 11 14:07:32 EEST 2005     root at sinanica.bg.datamax:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SINANICA-SMP  i386

>Description:

The command given in the "4.4 Patching" chapter of the porters-handbook
as a way to convert CRLF line endings (dos format) to LF (unix) is
mixture from find's -exec ... '{}' \; and xargs.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml.orig	Thu May  5 11:58:37 2005
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml	Thu May  5 11:59:17 2005
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
 
 post-extract:
 	@${FIND} -E ${WRKDIR} -type f -iregex ".*\.(c|cpp|h|txt)" -print0 | \
-		${XARGS} -0 ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/[[:cntrl:]]*$$//' '{}' \;</programlisting>
+		${XARGS} -0 ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's/[[:cntrl:]]*$$//'</programlisting>
 
 	<para>Of course, if you need to process each and every file,
 	  <option>-iregex</option> above can be omitted.  Be aware that this
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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