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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky@gmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Script broken after updating bash to 4.3.46-7?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 17:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1635303092.20160827191501@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPTiy3PXKi+8c+7VGOe+KMjqKmHAYfLERtsLcYKsz-5=C6nUaA@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings, Gene Pavlovsky!

> Looks like it's related to a recent change in bash, which is `read`
> now honors Cygwin-specific `igncr` shell option (`set -o igncr`),
> which I didn't enable.
> Adding `set -o igncr` to the top of the script does the job, however
> I'd like to know how many more scripts are potentially malfunctioning
> now?
> It's lucky that one sent e-mails on errors, some others might just
> break silently.
> Is it advisable to add `set -o igncr` to /etc/profile or SHELLOPTS? I
> didn't use that feature before and am worried about some other
> negative side effects.

It is advisable to not have CR's in your scripts to begin with.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, August 27, 2016 19:14:10

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-27 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-27 10:28 Gene Pavlovsky
2016-08-27 11:25 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-08-27 17:24   ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-08-28 10:19     ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-08-29 13:28       ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-08-29 14:05     ` cyg Simple
2016-08-30  3:21 ` Eric Blake
2016-08-30 18:21   ` cyg Simple
2016-08-30 18:32     ` Eric Blake
2016-08-31 10:16       ` cyg Simple
2016-09-04  9:38         ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-09-04 17:37           ` Lee
2016-09-05 23:37             ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-09-06 13:15           ` Eric Blake

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