Right you are. dos2unix fixed it. Thanks! Dave
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:40:32AM -0700, David Partridge wrote: >>I just installed cygwin (1.5.24-2) on a Windows Vista machine. >>When I execute a script file to set my environment variables, >>they look okay but don't actually work correctly. The following >>example shows the difference between what happens when I execute >>the export command directly from bash and from the script. >>Note that the simple echo command appears to show that everything >>is fine, but the cd command fails, and when leading and trailing >>characters are echoed the variable defined in the script strangely >>shows up after the trailing characters. I cut and paste the >>export command straight from the script file (both from the screen >>print and from withing vi), but it still always works from the >>command line and fails from the prompt. This used to work just >>fine on an older version of cygwin running on windows XP. I've >>recreated new test scripts from within cygwin to make sure there >>weren't any extra control characters, but that doesn't help. >> >>Any thoughts on what to try next would be greatly appreciated! >> >>$ cat set1 >>export FRED=mydir >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ export FRED=mydir >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ cd $FRED >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/mydir >>$ echo $FRED >>mydir >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/mydir >>$ echo "##"$FRED"**" >>##mydir** >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/mydir >>$ cd .. >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ . ./set1 >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ cd $FRED >>: No such file or directory >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ echo $FRED >>mydir >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ echo "##"$FRED"**" >>**mydir >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c >>$ exit > > I'd wager that "./set1" has \r\n line endings. Running it through > dos2unix should fix it. > > cgf > > -- > 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/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trouble-with-export-tf3710761.html#a10380192 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
