Very Computer

I'm trying to write a very basic shell script and then run it.
I'm using Linux 7.2 RH with bash shell. Can somemone tell me how do I
do that?

This is the only text in my update.sh (or update.bash) file
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cd /cvs
cvs update -dP ./project/website
cp /cvs/project/website/html/*.*
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/projectcenter/docs/
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but when I run it using this command

    /cvs/update.bash      

I get this error:

: command not found
update from cvs
: command not found
: No such file or directory
: no such repository
cp: copying multiple files, but last argument
`/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/projectcenter/docs/\r' is not a directory
Try `cp --help' for more information.
: command not found
done
: command not found
bash-2.05#

Is there something wrong with my scripts or the way I run it? I've
done a chmod 777 on that file too.  Do I need  to make that file
available on my path, and how do I do that?

Thanks.

My guess is that you wrote the script on a Windows box and transferred it
to the Linux box, but forgot to set ASCII mode when you transferred it.  So
it still has the Windows CR characters before all the newlines.

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Put 'set -x' at the beginning of the script to help debugging the script.

should be either:

cp /cvs/project/website/html/*.* /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/projectcenter/docs/ #all in one line

or

cp /cvs/project/website/html/*.* \
/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/projectcenter/docs/ #proper line-splitting

Also, if you are new to UNIX shell, please be warned the equivalent of
*.* in dos prompt is * in UNIX shell which means everything.

*.* in UNIX shell means files&dirs that have dot(s) in their names.

Quote:> cp: copying multiple files, but last argument
> `/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/projectcenter/docs/\r' is not a directory

                                              ^^
Remove the \r character. dos2unix may help.

YS.