X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.79.227 with SMTP id m3mr25419008wix.12.1363167403933; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:36:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <514040CC.8040607@gmail.com> References: <514040CC.8040607@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:36:43 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: bash script under cygwin fails to recognize simple commands From: Andy Koppe To: bob.brusa@gmail.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 r2D9b6kn020824 On 13 March 2013 09:03, Bob Brusa wrote: > Hi, > it seems I miss something. The primitive script t1.sh > > #!/bin/bash > echo "script running" > ls -l > echo "script terminating" > exit 0 > > produces a rather unexpected result when running it from cygwin terminal: > > rwb@w500 ~ > $ ./t1.sh > script running > ls: unknown option -- > „ls --help“ gibt weitere Informationen. > script terminating > : Ein numerischer Parameter ist erforderlich. > > rwb@w500 ~ > > Why is this? Your script has DOS line endings in it. The dos2unix utility will fix that for you. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple