Scripts in Cygwin acting strangely
Bash scripting in my Cygwin environment that used to work so well is now acting strangely.
To illustrate see how variable $i works with echo but fails with ls, given a file like this...
$ cat /tmp/psif
pointsec
pointsec/docs
pointsec/docs/Architecture
And a script like this...
$ cat /tmp/ww
#!/usr/bin/bash -x
for i in `cat /tmp/psif`
do
echo $i
ls -dl $i
read x
done
When I run it with -x for debgging I get this....
$ /tmp/ww
++ cat /tmp/psif
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec\r'
pointsec
+ ls -dl $'pointsec\r'
: No such file or directory
+ read x
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec/docs\r'
pointsec/docs
+ ls -dl $'pointsec/docs\r'
: No such file or directorydocs
+ read x
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec/docs/Architectu
pointsec/docs/Architecture
+ ls -dl $'pointsec/docs/Architectu
: No such file or directorydocs/Architecture
+ read x
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
To illustrate see how variable $i works with echo but fails with ls, given a file like this...
$ cat /tmp/psif
pointsec
pointsec/docs
pointsec/docs/Architecture
And a script like this...
$ cat /tmp/ww
#!/usr/bin/bash -x
for i in `cat /tmp/psif`
do
echo $i
ls -dl $i
read x
done
When I run it with -x for debgging I get this....
$ /tmp/ww
++ cat /tmp/psif
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec\r'
pointsec
+ ls -dl $'pointsec\r'
: No such file or directory
+ read x
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec/docs\r'
pointsec/docs
+ ls -dl $'pointsec/docs\r'
: No such file or directorydocs
+ read x
+ for i in '`cat /tmp/psif`'
+ echo $'pointsec/docs/Architectu
pointsec/docs/Architecture
+ ls -dl $'pointsec/docs/Architectu
: No such file or directorydocs/Architecture
+ read x
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
ASKER
I wish it was that easy...they do exist...
$ ls -ld pointsec pointsec/docs pointsec/docs/Architecture
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 veedar Domain Users 0 Mar 19 13:30 pointsec
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 veedar Domain Users 0 Mar 16 10:48 pointsec/docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 veedar Domain Users 128512 Mar 13 10:37 pointsec/docs/Architecture
$ ls -ld pointsec pointsec/docs pointsec/docs/Architecture
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 veedar Domain Users 0 Mar 19 13:30 pointsec
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 veedar Domain Users 0 Mar 16 10:48 pointsec/docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 veedar Domain Users 128512 Mar 13 10:37 pointsec/docs/Architecture
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Thanks amit_g dos2unix fixed it. I thought I had already checked for a DOS issue but I guess not.
Yes, the directory you are trying to 'ls' does not exist in the path from wich you are executing the script.
"No such file or directory docs/Architecture.doc"