ssh appending CR to ouptut

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 19 22:10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Julian Neil wrote:
>>> Under Windows Server 2003, ssh appends CR to some command outputs (eg 
>>> when I execute hostname).  This is causing some of my scripts to fail. I 
>>> have tried fiddling with the CYGWIN environment variable, but it doesn't 
>>> seem to help.
>>> Attached are some simple test cases and cygcheck output. 
>>> Any suggestions?
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>>
>> Second, install the 'coreutils' package.  You're calling the Windows
>> 'hostname' executable.  You need the Cygwin one.
> 
> This is probably a problem with $PATH when not running an interactive
> shell, like this:
> 
>   $ echo $PATH
>   /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/bin
>   $ type hostname
>   hostname is /usr/bin/hostname
> 
>   $ ssh localhost 'echo $PATH'
>   /usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/bin
>   $ ssh localhost type hostname
>   hostname is /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/hostname

Yep.  My eyes were playing tricks on me.  I would have sworn that the
cygcheck output was missing the 'coreutils' package, which would also
cause such a problem.  But looking again, the package is there so this
has to be a path issue, as you noted.

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