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Asked: 2026-05-27T18:39:24+00:00

I am new to Bash Script. I run the following simple script in Ubuntu

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I am new to Bash Script. I run the following simple script in Ubuntu like this:

sudo bash -x Script.sh

Output:

+ $'\r'
: command not found
+ $'\r'
: command not found
+ $'\r'
: command not found
+ adminEmail=$'info@domain.com\r'
+ $'\r'
: command not found
' echo 'database name:
database name:
+ read $'dbname\r'

The actual script:

#!/bin/bash

# Installation script for latest WordPress website on Ubuntu
# 
# Kave
# December 27, 2011


adminEmail="info@domain.com"

echo "database name:"
read dbname

What are all these '\r' error messages coming up? Even the comments seem not to be understood…

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  1. Editorial Team

    You downloaded the file via a Windows machine, and you have CRLF line endings (that’s \r\n in C and related languages).

    Remove the DOS line endings. For example, edit the file in vim and change the format with :set fileformat=unix (plus Return) and then write the file back out. Alternative techniques could use the tr command, or dos2unix or dtou, depending on what’s available.

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