I get the below error while trying to execute a shell script,
$'\r': command not found: line 2:
Please suggest a solution for the same.
Below are the intial lines used in the script,
#!/bin/sh
if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
echo "ERROR Environment argument missing <dev,test,qa,prod>"
export RC=50
exit $RC
fi
Your problem is that the file has Windows line endings. This can be caused by editing a file in Windows and trying to run it on a non-Windows system.
You can fix this problem using dos2unix
to convert the line endings:
dos2unix ConstruedTermsXMLGenerator.sh
The corresponding utility to convert in the other direction is unix2dos
.
Some systems have fromdos
and todos
.
You can use sed -i 's/\r$//' scriptname.sh
Replace the scriptname with actual script name.
I got a different error message when running your script under /bin/sh
, but when I switched to /bin/bash
, it worked fine:
$ cat foo.sh
#!/bin/sh
if [[ $# -lt 1 ]];
then echo "ERROR Environment argument missing"
RC=50
exit $RC
fi
$ sh foo.sh
foo.sh: 6: [[: not found
$ bash foo.sh
ERROR Environment argument missing
You've built in a bashism. This may or may not be a big deal for your organization. If you want to keep using bash
-specific features, change the shebang line to #!/bin/bash
and see if that helps.
I had this exact issue when creating a .sh file on a Mac (unix) and executing it in Linux.
Turns out that I had to set FileZilla FTP settings to 'Binary' transfer type:
- "Settings>Transfers>File Types>Default transfer type" to "Binary" (instead of "Auto")
I had the same error and what I did was to transform the characters '\r'
to '\n'
. using this line:
tr '\r' '\n' < oldfile.sh > newfile.sh
mv newfile.sh oldfile.sh
chmod +x oldfile.sh
./oldfile.sh
I think you could also delete the '\r' characters by using:
tr -d '\r' < oldfile.sh > newfile.sh
tr
is the command trasnform, and the -d
is delete the following character.
I think the shell actually doesn't like '\r'
character.