Hello, i feel this should be easy problem to fix, ive just hit a brick wall. This is my first bunch of scripts. What they are is a menu for automation of wireless cracking and cleanup script. The rest work fine so im now confused why im having so much trouble with the *easy* parts. I am running these scripts on Back Trace 5 - R1 let me know if you need any other information

menu.sh
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green="\e[1;92m"

echo -e $green

echo "*********************************************"

echo "* Mark's Wireless Access Point Cracker *"

echo "*********************************************"

echo "* a) Brute-Force Wireless AP *"

echo "* b) Update Wordlist (newlist>biglist) *"

echo "* c) Clean-Up (removes dump & Backup files) *"

echo "* d) Exit *"

echo "*********************************************"

read -p "Please pick an option. " ABCD

echo $ABCD

Error
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': not a valid identifier `ABCD

Strange, Ive used read -p in my main script & it worked. I've tried different variables, lowercase / uppercase. ive also tried with "" around variable name. This error occurs once a value is entered in terminal. Im stuck

cleanup.sh
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green="\e[1;92m"

echo -e $green"Clearing Old Data...."

rm /media/8GB/wl_tools/wordlist/*.bak

rm /media/8GB/wl_tools/wordlist/newlist_sort

rm -r /media/8GB/wl_tools/dump/*

echo "Complete!"

Error
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rm: cannot remove `/media/8GB/wl_tools/wordlist/*.bak\r': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/media/8GB/wl_tools/wordlist/newlist_sort\r': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `/media/8GB/wl_tools/dump/*\r': No such file or directory

This error occurs when running in terminal, if i run these commands manually in terminal works perfectly. seems to \r to the end of the directory i have no idea why or what it means, but it seems to be the reason why it is failing.

Thanks for your help.
ps. These are my first bunch of scripts so any other tips great appreciated too

The \r is the shortcut for carriage-return. It is a line terminator usually appended by windows systems, that is a line of text in windows terminates with \r\n whereas on Unix machines it ends with a single \n. Maybe you've written the scripts on a windows machine? If this is the case, try to run the dos2unix command on the script before running them again: it should convert the line terminators to the unix style.

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OF COURSE! thanks so much, i restart computer after making main script and made the rest! haha idot! thanks
i converted, and all is fine! works perfectly