On 1/29/2010 8:14 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > > Hi all, > > i have just updated to 1.7.1 an run in trouble. During the previous > installations there was a switch which sets the used file format Dos/Unix. > This switch did not only disappear also the former uses file format (DOS) was > set to Unix underhand . The result is that a lot of scripts did not work > anymore because they produce a bunch of lines " bash: $'\r': command not > found" instead of the expected output. I'm not able to filter all the > scripts and files to remove the DOS line separator so I have to set the file > format correctly. > > As far I can see there is no topic in the user manual which covers this issue > also nothing in the FAQ.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Among other things that section discusses the /etc/fstab file and the mount options available, two of which are "binary" and "text". You need to add entries to your /etc/fstab file for at least the paths which contain your files, likely /cygdrive/c or something similar, which set the "text" mount option. Using your cygdrive as an example: none /cygdrive cygdrive text,posix=0,user 0 0 -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
