> It seems that the sed '1s/
> $//;1q'
>
> is incorrect. But maybe I am wrong with this.
You are not wrong.
$ p4 changes mktexlsr
Change 3206 on 2003/06/23 by rahtz at spqr-dell 'lets dump some more ^Ms '
...
I think that mktexlsr *intentionally* had some ^M characters in it...
That cleanup has broken this script.
Thomas