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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:45:23 -0800 (PST)
From: fschmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade
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from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-12/msg00026.html


> 2. d2u is your friend.  You can use it to convert any problematic script
> into binary line endings.
> 

Several people I work with, who are even less technical than I am, use
cygwin and edit scripts with various editors.  So this will not work.


> 3. Cygwin text mounts automatically work with either line ending style,
> because the \r is stripped before bash reads the file.  If you absolutely
> must use files with \r\n line endings, consider mounting the directory
> where those files live as a text mount.  However, text mounts are not as
> well tested or supported on the cygwin mailing list, so you may encounter
> other problems with other cygwin tools in those directories.
> 

I don't know what mounts are, or how to use them.


> 4c. To affect all scripts, export the environment variable BASH_ENV,
> pointing to a file that sets the shell option as desired.  Bash will
> source this file on startup for every script.
> 

I tried:

cd /etc
echo '(set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed'
>bash_env
export BASH_ENV=/etc/bash_env

This did not work.


> 4d. Added in the bash-3.2-2 release: export the environment variable
> SHELLOPTS with igncr included in it.  It is read-only from within bash,
> but you can set it before invoking bash; once in bash, it auto-tracks the
> current state of 'set -o igncr' or 'shopt -s igncr'.  If exported, then
> all bash child processes inherit the same option settings.
> 

I tried:

export SHELLOPTS=$SHELLOPTS:igncr

and got:

bash: SHELLOPTS: readonly variable


> 5. You can also experiment with the IFS variable for controlling how bash
> will treat \r during variable expansion.
> 

I don't know what the IFS variable is, or how to use it.

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