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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Getopts not echoing correctly Post 303035073 by mohca2020 on Monday 13th of May 2019 05:19:08 PM
Old 05-13-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
Your $SERVERFILE has a CR character at the line end (usually from being edited in WinDos).
Run dos2unix on it!
Perfect. Retested it and it's working as expected.

Thanks
 

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