bad interpreter: No such file or directory - Solution

Hi,

Not sure if this has been posted here before but I've just found this out so maybe it could help others.

I've had a site up for a while but couldn't figure out why some of my Fetch files failed to run. I knew that the syntax within the files themselves was correct because the contents copied and pasted into the command line on the server worked fine, but my Cron jobs kept returning this error:

: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

All files but one failed and I couldn't see any difference between the text file that worked and those that didn't. So I googled the error and found out that some invisible characters had crept into my text files and the quickest way to ensure that all files was correct was to do this:

Search your server for the dos2unix program:

Then run it against your file to convert ensure that it's a UNIX file:

Of course, if you've got several files and you've named them with the same prefix then just put in a wildcard to convert them all:

They all should work when your Cron job calls them now, and you won't have to download them manually!

Regards,
Ben
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