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Philippe Fremy wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> My cygwin installation is pretty old, so I decided to update it.
> 
> After running the update, bash has a very very strange behaviour.
> 
> I wrote a test-bash.sh file with:
> ==========[ content of test-bash.sh ]====
> echo this is a test of bash
> ==========
> 
> 
> When I run it:
> <<
> User AT Phil_vaio ~
> $ bash test-bash.sh
> : command not found1:
> this is a test of bash
> 
> User AT Phil_vaio ~
> $ . test-bash.sh
> : command not found
> this is a test of bash
> 
> Any idea what got broken during the update ?

You almost certainly have DOS line endings in a file on a binary mount. Either
run it through d2u (DOS 2 unix) or edit it using an editor that doesn't add
DOS line endings.  Or any other of a myriad solutions. See much discussion and,
most importantly, the release notes for the latest Base.

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