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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth DOT Nellis AT xerox DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Executing a script on Cron and produces ctrl-m
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:49:39 +0000
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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Executing a script on Cron and produces ctrl-m

Hi,

I would like to seek your help regarding the behavior of running a shell script manually and via cron in Cygwin.
I made a simple bash script that execute hostname command, assign it to a variable and write it on the logfile.

     xhostname=`hostname`
     echo "`date`| ${xhostname}*" >> /some/folder/logfile.log


When I manually execute the script, the expected output is ok.   But when I execute it via cron, it added a "Control-M" after it returned the hostname value.  May I know how I will address the issue?

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Because cron is executing the Windows version of hostname.
Type: which -a hostname
Check your $PATH.
--Ken Nellis

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