Bash confusion

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Fanie Nel wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a very stupid question:
> 
> I have just installed Cygwin on a new XP computer, and my bash scripts
> will not run, for example:
> 
> When running a bash script  containing a program name and a parameter 
> file ie
> 
> pixelplot test.par
> 
> The pixelplot program runs but cannot find the test.par file ,located
> in the same directory.
> 
> Furthermore changing directories , using cd, within a script does not work.
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes.  First, please read through the bash announcement:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00008.html>

My WAG is that you'll find you have DOS line endings in your binary mounted
directories.  Run these scripts through 'd2u'.

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