I've made a crude script under cygwin/XP, it was mainly working, but, after some edits, I'm getting a '?' appended to file name ? as so: sms_out_now.txt?
when I paste individual lines at command line, it seems to work, when I run from the 3 line script, it seems to append the '?' where am I going wrong, I'm trying to copy small file, then, put current time/date: the problem (I think?) arose after I added 'date >>' part ~ $ cat /home/voytek/sendsms #! /bin/sh cp /var/spool/sms/sms_out /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt date >> /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt mv /var/spool/sms/sms_out_now.txt /var/spool/sms/outgoing/ $ ls -al /var/spool/sms/ ... drwxr-xr-x+ 1 voytek None 0 Feb 21 15:08 . drwxr-xr-x+ 1 voytek None 0 Jan 29 2010 .. ... -rwxr-xr-x 1 voytek None 62 Feb 18 21:47 sms_out -rwxr-xr-x 1 voytek None 92 Feb 21 10:37 sms_out_now.txt? voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
