getting "command not found" when using source command on Fedora

4

I am using Fedora. When I issue:

-bash-3.2$ source na-profile.conf

I get:

: command not found
: command not found
: command not found

The na-profile.conf file looks like:

KEYTAB=server02 export KEYTAB;
ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/app/xxxx/11.2.0.1/yyyyy; export ORACLE_HOME;
TNS_ADMIN=$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin; export TNS_ADMIN;
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

There are no extra lines or spaces in the file.

badgerduke

Posted 2014-02-14T19:02:50.003

Reputation: 143

There is a missing ; on line 1 after server02. – Dennis Kerrisk – 2014-02-14T19:07:06.723

I put the semicolon in and I get the same result – badgerduke – 2014-02-14T19:12:07.093

"set -x" before the source command to see how bash expands the input. – Amos Shapira – 2014-02-14T23:11:59.663

Answers

5

This is caused by having MS-DOS line endings in na-profile.conf

The shell is trying to use the ^M character as a command, and reports that it cannot be found.

You might have created the file using a Windows editor?

Convert the file to have unix line endings and the problem will resolve.

Instructions here: Convert CRLF's to line feeds on Linux

Kevin Panko

Posted 2014-02-14T19:02:50.003

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