source command horribly broken after Cygwin update

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Sun Jul 15 03:03:00 GMT 2007


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According to Olivier Lefevre on 7/14/2007 8:49 PM:
> Current bash version is 3.2.17(15)-release. When I read an alias file
> with source weird results ensue. E.g., if the alias file is
> 
>   alias rm='rm -i'
>   alias mv='mv -i'
> 
> then 'source /etc/alias' followed by 'alias' shows
> 
>   'lias mv='mv -i
>   'lias rm='rm -i

Your sourced file has DOS line endings, but you are using a binary mount.
 Reread the bash release announcement; then either use d2u to convert your
files to Unix line endings, swap over to using text mounts, or use the
cygwin-specific igncr bash option to ignore the spurious \r in your files.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-05/msg00003.html

And searching the mailing list would have taught you that this has been
discussed ad nauseum over the past few months - googling first before
posting would save some embarrassment on your part.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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