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Re: Problems with bashrc in cygwin


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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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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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