X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Unable to access file from shell script (XP configure problem?) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:32:17 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: From: "Ramon Felciano" To: "Patrick Monnerat" , X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l9PMWQrk023638 Perfect -- this did the trick! Thank you all for your quick responses! Ramon > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Patrick Monnerat > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:04 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Unable to access file from shell script (XP configure > problem?) > > > Ramon Felciano wrote: > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > : No such file or directoryramon.txt > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > which looks like it is an error message that overwrote the > "/cygdrive/c/Downloads/ramon.txt" pathname. > > Your shell script as CRLF-ending lines, while cygwin uses \n-ending > lines. The shell considers the CR at the end of script line 'cat "$@"' > as being part of the file name: there is no such file and the error > message is overwritten at display time. > > A solution is to convert your script using dos2unix > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ ----+---- This email message (and any attached document) contains information from Ingenuity Systems Inc. which may be considered confidential by Ingenuity, or which may be privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure under law, and is for the sole use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. Any other dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify me and destroy the attached message (and all attached documents) immediately. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/