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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:18:42 +0000
From: Owen Rees <owen DOT rees AT hp DOT com>
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Subject: Re: String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail
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--On Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:32:15 +0100 Borislav Tomov wrote:

> Example results:
>
> one
> +ne
> +two
> The number 2: two
>  + twos one

> Example result:
>                for line XX which is the last +1 line of the script, the
> following message is displayed
>
> script_path: line XX: syntax error: unexpected end of file

This is not Cygwin specific. You get the same results on Linux provided 
that you copy the scripts across in binary mode preserving the \r 
characters at the ends of the lines.

See the archives for much discussion of bash and \r.

-- 
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK


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