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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:18:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Tim Hanson <t.hanson <at> faz.de> writes:

> [...]
> i'd be grateful for pointers. (or advice on how to provide more clues.)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Tim
> 
> 

I found this in the archive...

From: Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net>
Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.2.9-11
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Date: 2007-01-27 16:30:22 GMT (2 days, 14 hours and 41 minutes ago)
[...]
4a. For a single affected script, add this line just after the she-bang:
 (set -o igncr) 2>/dev/null && set -o igncr; # comment is needed
4b. For a single script, invoke bash explicitly with the shopt, as in
'bash -o igncr ./myscript' rather than the simpler './myscript'.
[...]


The value of the latest enhancement isn't immediately apparent to me.

db




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