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Re: /etc/profile error
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: <kynn at panix dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:19 -0500
- Subject: Re: /etc/profile error
- References: <200411152238.iAFMc2u03761@panix3.panix.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 05:38 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:
>Hi. I just installed Cygwin on an IBM laptop running Windows XP.
>Whenever I bring up a Cygwin shell, I get the following error:
>
> bash: /etc/profile: line 196: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
>I don't see any problem with /etc/profile:
>
> 190 echo "mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd"
> 191 echo "mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group"
> 192 echo
> 193 echo "This message is only displayed once (unless you recreate /etc/group)"
> 194 echo "and can be safely ignored."
> 195
> 196 # only display the above once
> 197 cp -f /etc/group ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d \
> 198 && ( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; )\
> 199 && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/group \
>
>In fact, this /etc/profile file is identical to the /etc/profile files
>in other Cygwin installations I have done recently, and do not
>generate the error quoted above.
>
>Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-11/msg00106.html>
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