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Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade

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According to Dave Korn on 1/5/2007 4:43 AM:

> On 05 January 2007 08:33, fschmidt wrote:
>
>> After I upgraded cygwin, my scripts stopped working. I see that this has
>> something to do with a change in how bash treats CR/LF
>
> It's dead simple: just use the 'd2u' program on your script files, it will
> convert the line-endings from dos to unix format and everything will be fine.
>
> Alternatively, there is a shell option for recent versions of bash called
> 'igncr' that persuades it to ignore CR when it finds one at the cost of a bit
> of slowdown executing scripts. See item #4 in the recent bash release
> announcements.

Available here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html

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