> Perhaps one of the files has DOS line endings and the other has UNIX > line endings? Try d2u on the broken one to see if it fixes the problem. That was exactly it. Thanks very much. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/identical-scripts-don%27t-behave-identically-tp24400289p24400837.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple