Thank you both for the suggestions on the text editor on windows. This is probably a really dumb question, but could I open the script files up on my work computer, edit it, and save it again(on a windows) and have that "possibly" eliminate this issue?

Thanks again for everyone's help.

Yes, I also recommend Notepad++. It is free and is currently maintained.

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Any editing on a Windows machine will inject the wrong line endings into the file (unless you use one of those editors that can be configured to use Unix line endings, like Notepad++), and require you to run dos2unix on the file before it can be used on a Linux system. I don't believe any of those editors that can be configured to use Unix line endings will fix a previously-created file that uses the wrong ones though, it's best to just run dos2unix on it and fix it outright, and from then on make sure to only use editors that use Unix line endings.

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You can see if a file has the ^M at the end of a line using:
Notepad++ can remove them. Go to the Edit menu, select EOL Conversion, then select UNIX/OSX Format. Save the file and the hidden characters will be gone.

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Also, I'd highly recommend avoiding spaces in file/dir names if possible.
The default *nix convention is that params passed to a program are space separated ... from which you can see that spaces cause issues on *nix.

As for the "TV[]", that's probably some kind of ctrl char you've managed to accidentally add.
Try renaming it, but that might be tricky, or move the contents, then delete it and recreate it.

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Hello everyone, it is I reporting back.

Thanks to everyone here that helped and offered suggestions. You guys completely rock!

So I 86'd the written scripts, brought my laptop in to the office with me and wrote out a new one on linux. (I also added dos2unix to my machines)

So I set up the scheduler and went to work.

I have just checked, it appears to have exited with code 0, and it looks like it worked. Now, on to the removal of the extra files, and then set up something similar where a random playlist is copied over to my phone from my media centre for my daily commute.

Thanks again everyone for all your awesome help!

Awesome progress!

Great! Thanks for posting the end results.