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From: Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Sourcing files in cygwin?
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxXO2Ftyox2Jn0-XdEaAv0o_K0i1raFNZ9OgFb-iOTMU=v4Gw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxXO2EPifamVsWRX6oVK9OHy5_LoVCM=UeSog0SctnEDq3=8A@mail.gmail.com>

Searching in the web, I found out the problem:
Cygwin requires unix line breaks, the ones I supplied were created in windows:(

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:42 PM Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to source the file .alias in my ~/.bashrc file:
>
> echo "alias = $(ls -la ~/.alias)"
> . ~/.alias
>
> I get:
>
> alias = -rwxr-xr-x 1 <user> None 117 Jul 20 20:15 /home/<user>/.alias
> : No such file or directory
>
> Seems ls understands fine the ~/.alias notation and the file exists.
> Sourcing, however, doesn't. Or is it that sourcing doesn't work in cygwin?
> Can't understand from the error:(
>
> TIA
> Nikos
>
> Attached is the zipped cygcheck output with user crossed out

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