Spotgen Answers to Any and Every Command with "File or Directory not Found"

[edo9k]

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[epsil]

Hi edo9k.

I am not able to reproduce the problem. Could you please tell me how you installed spotgen?

[edo9k]

Thanks for replying. I installed it via npm install, as instructed on the github page.

[epsil]

Thanks for the clarification. And from the screenshot I gather that you are running some version of Linux (Ubuntu?), correct?

Let me run some tests on a Linux laptop I have lying around, and then I'll get back to you.

[epsil]

It's a problem with line endings. index.js has DOS-style line endings (CRLF), which confuses the interpreter.

[edo9k]

It's how persistent some problems can be. I'll try to grep/replace the line endings in this file tomorrow and I'll let you know how it goes in this thread. Thank you!

[epsil]

I would have pushed a fix already, but Git does some magic where the line endings are automatically translated between different conventions on different systems:

• Windows (DOS): CRLF (\r\n)
• Linux (Unix): LF (\n)
• OS X (pre-Unix): CR (\r)

This "helpful behavior" actually makes it rather difficult to reproduce the problem. Specifically:

• When I check out the code with Git, I get Unix line endings -- whether I'm on Windows, Linux or OS X.
• When I run npm install on Linux, then I get DOS-style line endings.
• But when I run npm install on Windows, then I get Unix line endings again.

I'm not exactly sure what is happening here. I'll try recommitting the file and see if that makes any difference.

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In the meantime, as a workaround, you can fix index.js yourself, or use the web demo for the time being.

[edo9k]

On the line ending problem, I tried using sed to correct the problem, and got into some file ownership problem.
But I have been using the web demo, and it's working perfectly.
Thanks again.

[epsil]

Try:

sudo vi index.js

Then, in vi:

:set ff=unix
:wq!

[edo9k]

Worked! Thanks a lot!

[epsil]

On a related note, I will also commit a fix to make the output parameter optional, so that

spotgen hardcore_softpop.txt

works just as well as

spotgen hardcore_softpop.txt output.txt

As of currently, the latter works, the former does not.

[epsil]

Hi!

Would you please update spotgen to the latest version and check if it works?

sudo npm uninstall -g spotgen
sudo npm install -g spotgen

[edo9k]

Working like a charm! Thanks a lot, man 👍