For those who are interested, my BASH problems were due to the presence of some control characters in the script file. I was using the "ae" editor, which in its latest incarnation was inserting a "^M" at the end of each line to signify a carriage return. Once I switched to vi I could see the characters, and delete them. This fixed the scripts.
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