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 { [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] } -- > Do not read this email while waxing that cat! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zip184 Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:08 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.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/