sbatch error: batch script contains dos line breaks

solution: 

If you receive an error message like this when trying to submit a job, it is because your batch script was edited in a Windows editor, not a unix editor.  The Windows editors add line breaks that the unix interpreter doesn't recognize.  You may receive an error such as:

sbatch: error: Batch script contains DOS line breaks (\r\n)

sbatch: error: instead of expected UNIX line breaks (\n).

Run the dos2unix command on your file to remove the Windows line breaks.  For example:

dos2unix myBatchFile

Use the 'man' command to see all the options for the dos2unix command:

man dos2unix