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simple shell script in cygwin

#!/bin/bash
echo 'first line' >foo.xml
echo 'second line' >>foo.xml

I am a total newbie to shell scripting.

I am trying to run the above script in cygwin. I want to be able to write one line after the other to a new file.

However, when I execute the above script, I see the follwoing contents in foo.xml:

second line

The second time I run the script, I see in foo.xml:

second line
second line

and so on.

Also, I see the following error displayed at the command prompt after running the script:

: No such file or directory.xml

I will eventually be running this script on a unix box, I am just trying to develop it using cygwin. So I would appreciate it if you could point out if it is a cygwin oddity and if so, should I avoid trying to use cygwin for development of such scripts?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Run dos2unix on your shell script. That will fix the problem.