On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 03:21:36PM -0500, Flint, Paul wrote: >Greetings List lurkers, > >I have been troubleshooting some new bash script that I wrote and wanted (for >some reason :^) to run on an NT box. > >So the struggle began... > >Anyway I get the oddest error: > ><snip> >/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found >/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found >warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in sendjcl.log. ><snap> > >So... I check my code and check my code... soon the problem begins to drive me >mad... > >Then! > >I do this from a cygwin ver 2.761 terminal... > >$cd /c/cygwin/bin >$dos2unix awk > >Now awk works!
Right. awk doesn't want CRLF line endings. Remember that Cygwin is a linux-like environment. Linux doesn't always deal well with Windows line endings either. cgf -- 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
