Re: cygwin script file name error
Amos Shapira <[email protected]>
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BTW, in addition to the rest that was said, "cat -tve" is very useful in troubleshooting such issues. On 21 Feb 2014 15:24, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html