05-03-2016
It seems likely that when you put the script I suggested in a file, you used an editor with the line terminator set to <carriage-return><linefeed> (as you would expect in DOS files) instead of just the <linefeed> (AKA <newline>) character that is required by the shell.
If you rremove the <carriage-return> characters from the file containing the commands I suggested, it should work.
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