Variables in shell script not working

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 17:04 +0100, Jef Driesen wrote:
> The output should always go to stdout and when the script is used with
> a filename, the original should not be modified. So that excludes
> running dos2unix on it directly.

Try

   FILENAME=$1
   cat $FILENAME | dos2unix | sed s/foo/bar/ 

This will work even if there is no filename, because cat takes stdin if
no file is specified. If there is a filename, the named file will not be
modified.

Regards, K.

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