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Re: Problems with bashrc in cygwin
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, hyam dot singer at impact-computing dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:44:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: Problems with bashrc in cygwin
- References: <001a01c7285a$86759910$6601a8c0@IMPACTHS>
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According to Hyam Singer on 12/25/2006 12:26 PM:
> I have installed cygwin and am having problems with my bashrc that I have
> been unable to resolve. I am sure I must be missing something obvious, but
> the source of the problem evades me. The most perplexing symptom I am
> experiencing is the following:
>
> If I include the following in my .bashrc:
> x1="xyz"
> x2="123"
> x3=$x1/$x2
> then when I subsequently type "echo $x3" at the command line, the response
> is "/123" rather than the expected "xyz/123".
That's because you failed to read the release notes, and your script has
DOS line endings (you are picking up a \r in $x1, and it is resetting the
cursor so that when echoing to the terminal, the /123 overwrites the
already written xyz).
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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