Hi Frank, all the three methods work fine here. some points ...
Is the bash version right? [~/work] bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. [~/work] ) - first line of the shell script # is required In the shopt line like ... shopt -s igncr # ) - $HOME/.bash_profile .bash_profile is not automatically executed, at the startup of script. ) - "-O igncr" at invocation of bash If your script calls another bash script, you have to write in main script like .. bash another_bash_script -O igncr arg1 arg2 ) -----Original Message----- ) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Illenseer ) Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:49 PM ) To: cygwin@cygwin.com ) Subject: shopt igncr not working ) ) Hi all, ) ) i am experiencing problems with the newly introduced shopt ) "igncr" to solve ) the problem with ) CRNL in shell scripts on binary mounts. ) ) Unfortunately this is not working for me at all: I tried all ) possible places ) - first line of the shell script ) - $HOME/.bash_profile ) - "-O igncr" at invocation of bash ) but every time I got the well known errors from bash coming ) from the \r ) being present in the ) shell script. (I am doing this on a binary mount.) ) ) Any comments/help is appreciated. ) ) @Eric: Sorry for bothering again and also sorry that I bring ) the bad news ) for your really good solution! ) ) ) Best regards ) Frank ) --------------------------------- Kazuyuki Hagiwara -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/