The answer is odd to me but I'm glad I found it. My script generator was putting CR at the end of each line, and I found out that I needed LF instead. So I changed that, and voila my script runs in Terminal just fine. Thank you. Das Goravani

I just tried to SSH into the server from my MacBook Pro remotely, and it said that the operation timed out. That's unusual, it worked before. So now port 22 is timing out along with port 25. If that's a clue.

Never mind on that last comment. Seems I turned off remote login in sharing setup.