On 07/27/2010 01:54 PM, keith smith wrote: > If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows: > > #!/bin/bash > > /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/ > > > I get the following output: > > : command not founde 2: > /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > /bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > : command not founde 4: Just taking a guess from the "\r", but was the script created on a Windows or Macintosh computer and transferred to the current machine? Check that it has unix line endings (newline only).