> > I meant not my .bashrc and .bash_profile are readonly, but when I put > into them the line like this: > SHELLOPTS='igncr' > after logging in bash says to me that SHELLOPTS is readonly variable and > cannot be set.
>Reread the release announcement. SHELLOPTS auto-tracks >shell option settings, so you can do this in your .bash_profile: >export SHELLOPTS >set -o igncr >in order to change SHELLOPTS on the fly. > -- >Eric Blake >volunteer cygwin bash maintainer I have had the same problem for months with no way to fix it. I have tried everything I know so I tried this. After adding this to my .bash_profile and starting Cygwin, I get the following message bash: igncr: invalid option name bash: set: igncr: invalid option name So it does not see this as a valid option. Am I missing something? Regards, Mark -- 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/ -- 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/