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From: Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: unset TMP Variable issue
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAxXO2G3NMC9OL+n-cNUw5e1v0w2NwiJkKf0SeDUXu4gKUmBiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxXO2E0edZafrjRHg7uk1CvGRwGyii+VR8GWExU41DRbyvLTQ@mail.gmail.com>

Problem was windows line breaks:(

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:34 PM Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to cygwin setup instructions we have to unset certain
> windows environment variables to prevent unpredictable windows
> behavior.
> When I try that in my ~/.bashrc
> [...]
> unset TMPDIR
> unset TMP
> unset TEMP
> [...]
>
> I get:
> ': not a valid identifier
> ': not a valid identifier
> ': not a valid identifier
>
> With the following input:
> cygwin-> echo $TMP
> /cygdrive/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Temp
> cygwin-> echo $TEMP
> /cygdrive/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Temp
> cygwin-> echo $TMPDIR
>
> cygwin->
>
> What does the error "': not a valid identifier" mean and how can I fix it?
>
> TIA
> Nikos
>
> Attached is the zipped cygcheck output with user names crossed out

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       reply	other threads:[~2019-07-20 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAAxXO2E0edZafrjRHg7uk1CvGRwGyii+VR8GWExU41DRbyvLTQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-20 23:30 ` Nikos Balkanas [this message]
2019-08-29 11:43   ` Cygcheck.out sent to list causes email to get blocked (was Re: unset TMP Variable issue) L A Walsh
2019-08-29 12:27     ` Nikos Balkanas
2019-08-30  1:42     ` Brian Inglis

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