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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:42:19 -0500
To: <kynn AT panix DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: /etc/profile error
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At 05:38 PM 11/15/2004, you wrote:


>Hi.  I just installed Cygwin on an IBM laptop running Windows XP.
>Whenever I bring up a Cygwin shell, I get the following error:
>
>  bash: /etc/profile: line 196: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
>I don't see any problem with /etc/profile:
>
>   190    echo "mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd"
>   191    echo "mkgroup  -l -d > /etc/group"
>   192    echo
>   193    echo "This message is only displayed once (unless you recreate /etc/group)"
>   194    echo "and can be safely ignored."
>   195  
>   196    # only display the above once
>   197    cp -f /etc/group ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d \
>   198    && ( [ -w /etc/group ] || chmod --silent a+w /etc/group ; )\
>   199    && sed -e 's/^mkgroup_l_d/mkgroup-l-d/' ${HOME}/group.mkgroup_l_d > /etc/group \
>
>In fact, this /etc/profile file is identical to the /etc/profile files
>in other Cygwin installations I have done recently, and do not
>generate the error quoted above.
>
>Can someone tell me how to fix this problem?


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