Hello All,
I have a shell script which uses awstats to generate log files. It has been working fine on red hat linux 7.3, but I recently moved the script to red hat linux 3 Enterprise and its giving error. The problem is in using variables. What happens is that \r is appended to all string variable assignment, which means that a path ends up as /var/www/html/domain1\r\r\r
due to which the folder path becomes invalid.
here is the simple code

#!/bin/sh
save_date=`date +%b%Y`
targetpath=/var/www/html/domain1usage/$save_date
awDomain=domain1
mkdir $targetpath
awPath=/var/www/cgi-bin
perl $awPath/awstats.pl -config=$awDomain -update

what happens is that the targetpath ends up as

/var/www/html/domain1usage/Sep2004\r\r\r

one \r for each time a variable assignment is done.

Please can anyone help me with this, I cannot seem to find any help about it. Thanks a lot in advance.
Imran

try :

unfortunately it does not work. It creates the same directory as the string name, the string is not resolved to a valid path

you don't use any of those variables more than once in that excerpt, so why not joing them all to a single command?
no assignments there at all, so presumably no \r's

Thank you so very much for your response. Unfortunately I had already tested that, and it does the same appends one \r at the end of it . So I am pretty much clueless as to what do do next.
Imran