dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/30/2014 12:04 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to use the dircolor command on CYGWIN, and it did not work because
> the two lines, which this command produces are separated by CRLF (which when
> sourced by bash are not understood, bash seems to expect single LFs):
>
> LS_OPTIONS='...';\r\n
> export LS_OPTIONS\r\n
>
> Why there are Windows-style EOLs in there?

If you edit the file with a native Windows editor, it will typically
introduce the Windows-style EOL characters.  Use 'dos2unix' or your
favorite utility to clean that up.


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Larry

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