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Old 08-17-2011
I worked with cygwin intensively enough some time. I have never had problems like this. Now I don't have it on my windows boxes so I can't check.
# 9  
Old 08-17-2011
Ok thanks for the help anyway. Appreciate it.
# 10  
Old 08-17-2011
Seems like some extra invisible characters at the end of line. Dump (cat -A or od) your script.
# 11  
Old 08-17-2011
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Originally Posted by binlib
Seems like some extra invisible characters at the end of line. Dump (cat -A or od) your script.
Sorry this is going to sound a bit simple, but im asuming cat -A or the od would go after the egrep, like a flag? In otherwords where do I put that into my script?Smilie
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Old 08-17-2011
I was not talking about changing your script but rather dumping your script. In your terminal, run "cat -A your-script-file" or "od -c your-script-file".
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Old 08-17-2011
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Originally Posted by binlib
I was not talking about changing your script but rather dumping your script. In your terminal, run "cat -A your-script-file" or "od -c your-script-file".
Ok I get you now, what should I be looking for or doing after that?
# 14  
Old 08-18-2011
Any characters which shouldn't be there.

Windows editors like Notepad have a habit of adding carriage-returns to the end of every line, things which UNIX doesn't need in a text file and so considers part of the text.
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