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Illegal character ^M
- From: frenco <frencoo at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:57:44 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Illegal character ^M
I have a problem with a character. I think it's a conversion problem between
dos and unix.
I have a variable that is a float value.
When I print it with the echo command i get:
0.495959
But when I try to make an operation on that value with the bc command (I am
not sure how to write the bc command).
echo $mean *1000 |bc
I get:
(standard_in) 1 : illegal character: ^M
I already use the dos2unix command on my .sh file.
I think it's because my variable have the ^M character (not printed with the
echo command)
How can i eliminate this error?
I already try a lot of things but I am really lost.
Any thought?
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