X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Ninja-PIM: Scanned by Ninja X-Ninja-AttachmentFiltering: (no action) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Simple shell script not working Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:50:54 -0700 Message-ID: <14CFC56C96D8554AA0B8969DB825FEA0037FAEB2@chicken.machinevisionproducts.com> From: "Brian D. McGrew" To: "zip184" , X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l6UHqJKg024974 What are you using for an editor? Try it with vi, nedit or emacs. Sounds like you've got DOS new-line characters on each line. -brian Brian D. McGrew { brian AT visionpro DOT com || brian AT doubledimension DOT com } -- > Do not read this email while waxing that cat! -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of zip184 Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:08 AM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Simple shell script not working This is the 2-line shell script I'm trying to run: #! /bin/sh touch test.txt The privledges are set to 777 I get the error output line: " bash: $'\r': command not found " for each command I put in the script, including cd, touch, ls, etc. Echo is the only one that works for some reason. Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Simple-shell-script-not-working-tf4171206.html#a11 866789 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/ -- 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/