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Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get deleted in bash window
- From: Richard Haney <rfhaney at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:46:46 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get deleted in bash window
Thanks all for the comments.
It turns out that, by info discovered via using "bash --help" and then `bash -c "help set"', I could simply add `-o igncr' to the login command line in the cygwin.bat file.
That's a lot simpler than using d2u or introducing another editor.
Richard Haney
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
> From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
> Subject: Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get deleted in bash window
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com, rfhaney@yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:51 PM
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> [http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTWLL]
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> According to Richard Haney on 6/25/2009 6:12 PM:
> > bash: /etc/profile: line 91: syntax error near
> unexpected token `$'in\r''
>
> As others have pointed out, that's due to using the wrong
> line-endings in
> your bash files.? Reread the announcement:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-06/msg00038.html
>
> > And when I try to copy and paste "cygcheck -s -v -r
> > cygcheck.out" into
> the bash command line, I find that the "e"s are
> missing.? And when I try
> to edit the line to insert the "e"s, I find that my "e" key
> is not functional.
>
> That would be due to ~/.inputrc having a syntax error
> (probably another
> instance of the wrong line endings).
>
> - --
> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
>
> Eric Blake? ? ? ? ?
> ???ebb9@byu.net
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