General scripting issues vs. Linux

[Ken Brown]

On 3/10/2023 8:47 AM, Markus Becker via Cygwin wrote:
> Dear Guys,
> 
> I am quite an newby in Cygwin scripting and encountered several execution
> issues with bash scripts. For example, when i try to execute the following
> simple scriptfile "skript1.sh":
> 
> # This is a testscript
> Statement="This is the testscript number 3"
> FILE="home/mbecker/Secure_Copy_Beispiel.txt"
> ls -l $FILE
> echo $Statement
> echo The file is $FILE
> 
> i got these results:
> 
> $ ./skript1.sh
> ls: cannot access 'home/mbecker/Secure_Copy_Beispiel.txt'$'\r\r': No such
> file or directory
> This is the testscript number 3
> The file is home/mbecker/Secure_Copy_Beispiel.txt
> 
> or another results from a different script:
> 
> $ ./skript7.sh
> ./skript7.sh: line 3: $'clear\r': command not found
> Dr▒cken sie beliebige Tasten und dann return
> ': not a valid identifierd: `TASTE
> 
> These are just two of several issues coming up with bash scripting in
> Cygwin. Maybe this is merely a corse problem with my platform
> understanding. But why is Cygwin calling errors when performing standard
> Linux bash commands? Is it due to a different syntax? Or is it even simpler?

It looks like your scripts have CRLF line endings.

Ken