Suggestion to Kipton: od -cx <name-of-your-script> will show you exactly what is in your script so you can see any spurious carriage-returns or other special characters.
> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > Behalf Of Eric Blake > Sent: September-06-16 9:21 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; kipton_mora...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: Bash shell script issue > > On 09/06/2016 05:36 PM, Kipton Moravec wrote: > > > I this is the script: > > #!/bin/bash > > echo $PWD > > Insufficient quoting. This does not do the right thing if $PWD contains > spaces. But not necessarily related to your problem at hand. > > > project_root=$PWD > > echo $project_root > > Again, insufficient quoting. > > > x=${project_root}/tools > > echo $x > > And again. > > > echo ${x} | cat -A > > > > On original Windows 7 computer I get: > > dalkmora@DALM0048 > ~/walnut/dp2b_walnut_customer_flextronics/walnut > > $ ./testconvert1.sh > > /home/dalkmora/walnut/dp2b_walnut_customer_flextronics/walnut > > /home/dalkmora/walnut/dp2b_walnut_customer_flextronics/walnut > > /toolsdalkmora/walnut/dp2b_walnut_customer_flextronics/walnut > > > /home/dalkmora/walnut/dp2b_walnut_customer_flextronics/walnut^M/to > ols^M$ > > The carriage returns are likely a product of you editing the file in > text mode (Windows notepad is notorious for this, but many other native > programs do likewise), but trying to execute the script in binary mode > (the default, if you do not use 'set -o igncr'). > > > > What am I doing wrong or is this an error? > > Where do the carriage returns (^M) come from, and how do I get rid of > them? > > d2u /path/to/your/script > > to remove all the carriage returns from your careless editing. Once they > are gone, then you don't need the 'igncr' crutch to tell bash to go into > text mode. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple