garbage characters being returned in scripts

[Jonathan Angliss]

On 07/20/11 18:05, Rick Garland wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Got a Nagios 3.2.3 server running on RHEL 5.5.
>
> Installed plugins include pnp4nagios 0.6.13 & rrdtools 1.4.5
>
> I made some custom scripts that include the use of sar. A snippet;
>
> WAITIO=`sar -u 1 3 | grep Average | awk '{print $4}'`
>
> CRIT=50
>
> echo "%waitio = $WAITIO | /=$WAITIO%;;$CRIT;0;100\r"
>
> exit 0

This may be a silly question, and completely unrelated, but is there any 
reason you're using \r instead of \n?  Is there any reason you're 
putting a carriage return? in here at all?

-- 
Jonathan Angliss


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