dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

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?

Thanks,

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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Re: 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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RE: dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

> If you edit the file with a native Windows editor, it will typically
> introduce the Windows-style EOL characters.

I did not edit anything, I just ran "dircolors", and it's output contains "\r\n"s.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI

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Re: dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 1/30/2014 1:30 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> I did not edit anything, I just ran "dircolors", and it's output contains "\r\n"s.

Then one possibility is that you redirected it to a file that is mounted on
a file system that isn't binary.

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 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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RE: dircolors generates output with '\r\n' ?

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

> Then one possibility is that you redirected it to a file that is mounted on
> a file system that isn't binary.

There it was, indeed.  Thanks.  And sorry about my brain-f@rt.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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