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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Odd behavior of scripts in dos mode
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+sc5mmKxm=p+Tpu44GhXBfmCR_E2=LSMq3A7K_4Sgs1FRbDQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jnbl6p$qav$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I remember that Cygwin used to not be able to run scripts that were
> converted or were in "DOS" mode - had trailing carriage returns in the file.
> It would fail because the #! line might have /bin/bash\r which was not a
> file (bash with a carriage return that is). But the behavior has changed.
> Now it seems to ignore the trailing carriage return and it execs bash
> itself. But it fails later on with other carriage returns.

http://cygwin.com/faq/#faq.api.cr-lf

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-26 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26 14:14 Andrew DeFaria
2012-04-26 14:26 ` Earnie Boyd [this message]
2012-04-26 14:33   ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-04-26 16:07   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-04-26 14:41 ` Eric Blake
2012-04-26 17:22   ` Andrew DeFaria

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