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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:29:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: "bash: $'\r': command not found"; also "e"s nonfunctional and get  	deleted in bash window
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Richard Haney wrote:
> Thanks all for the comments.
>
> It turns out that, by info discovered via using "bash --help" and then `bash -c "help set"', I could
>  simply add `-o igncr' to the login command line in the cygwin.bat file.

But set -o igncr only affects bash itself.  That's fine for shell
scripts, but you'll still have trouble with other programs and their
text files (like readline and .inputrc).
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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