Question

I want to build a shell script to execute the following two commands, but the shell complains that it does not know about the parameters clean or reload.

    make -f '/home/ec2-user/infx/infx.mak' clean
    make -f '/home/ec2-user/infx/infx.mak' reload > '/home/ec2-user/infx/mylog.txt' 2>&1

I would like to make a variable out of the directory as well, but when trying to concat the directory and infx.mak I am having even more issues.

Thanks for your help

Code and Errors:

    echo "Cleaning Project"
    make -f '/home/ec2-user/infx/infx.mak' clean
    echo "Making Project"
    make -f '/home/ec2-user/infx/infx.mak' reload > '/home/ec2-user/infx/mylog.txt' 2>&1
    srcdir='/home/ec2-user/infx'
    srcmak='/infx.mak'
    echo "$srcmak$srcdir"
    exit 0

    [ec2-user@ip infx]$ sudo ./reload.sh
    '.  Stop. No rule to make target `clean
    : ambiguous redirect 1
    /home/ec2-user/infx

Answer 1

The error message looks like you have DOS line endings in your script. Try dos2unix or tr -d '\015' to fix it. (Google for a bit if you need help; this is a very common problem.)