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Re: Odd behavior of scripts in dos mode


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I remember that Cygwin used to not be able to run scripts that were
> converted or were in "DOS" mode - had trailing carriage returns in the file.
> It would fail because the #! line might have /bin/bash\r which was not a
> file (bash with a carriage return that is). But the behavior has changed.
> Now it seems to ignore the trailing carriage return and it execs bash
> itself. But it fails later on with other carriage returns.

http://cygwin.com/faq/#faq.api.cr-lf

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