Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/05/08/12:48:22
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
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ export FRED=mydir
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ cd $FRED
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c/mydir
>$ echo $FRED
>mydir
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c/mydir
>$ echo "##"$FRED"**"
>##mydir**
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c/mydir
>$ cd ..
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ . ./set1
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ cd $FRED
>: No such file or directory
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ echo $FRED
>mydir
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ echo "##"$FRED"**"
>**mydir
>
>blah AT blah /cygdrive/c
>$ exit
I'd wager that "./set1" has \r\n line endings. Running it through
dos2unix should fix it.
cgf
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