X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4582C7C4.5040405@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:05:24 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Bash confusion References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Fanie Nel wrote: > Hi, > I have a very stupid question: > > I have just installed Cygwin on a new XP computer, and my bash scripts > will not run, for example: > > When running a bash script containing a program name and a parameter > file ie > > pixelplot test.par > > The pixelplot program runs but cannot find the test.par file ,located > in the same directory. > > Furthermore changing directories , using cd, within a script does not work. > > Any ideas? Yes. First, please read through the bash announcement: My WAG is that you'll find you have DOS line endings in your binary mounted directories. Run these scripts through 'd2u'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/