Re: cygwin script file name error

This will be an unreadable character in your script.

Cygwin has two modes Unix line ends and Windows line ends.    The ? is 
actually a \r

In 'vi'   ':set ff=unix'    ':wq'  to switch line endings.

if there is a \r showing go to it and press 'x' to delete it.



-----Original Message----- 
From: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

I've made a crude script under cygwin/XP, it was mainly working, but,
after some edits, I'm getting a '?' appended to file name ?
as so:
sms_out_now.txt?

when I paste individual lines at command line, it seems to work, when I
run from the 3 line script, it seems to append the '?'
where am I going wrong, I'm trying to copy small file, then, put current
time/date:

the problem (I think?) arose after I added 'date >>' part

~
$ cat /home/voytek/sendsms
#! /bin/sh
cp /var/spool/sms/sms_out /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt
date  >>  /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt
mv /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt /var/spool/sms/outgoing/

$ ls -al /var/spool/sms/
...
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 voytek None  0 Feb 21 15:08 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 voytek None  0 Jan 29  2010 ..
...
-rwxr-xr-x  1 voytek None 62 Feb 18 21:47 sms_out
-rwxr-xr-x  1 voytek None 92 Feb 21 10:37 sms_out_now.txt?


voytek


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