Technical question regarding Cron jobs

[Bolty]

Modern versions of vi (read -- the vi with linux which is really vim in a reduced mode) are not the best test for this, as they understand how to deal with DOS text files and will hide the ^M's from you.

Turns out you're right. Someone PM'ed me with the command:

Code:

head -1 <scriptname> | od -c | head -1

Which I ran, and found that there was a \r in the first line:

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ head -1 tschk.sh | od -c | head -1
0000000   #   !   /   b   i   n   /   s   h  \r  \n

This never showed in vi. Bleh. I used an online Dos2Unix converter to strip the \r and it works now.

Thanks guys!

-Bolty