X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B62F2EA.3040208@bopp.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:38:34 -0600 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: File format problem after updatin to 1.7.1 References: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DA8EE5F9 AT server03> In-Reply-To: <8CCC8F85C5F2784387A32FAD835FB4E602DA8EE5F9@server03> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 1/29/2010 8:14 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote: > > Hi all, > > i have just updated to 1.7.1 an run in trouble. During the previous installations there was a switch which sets the used file format Dos/Unix. This switch did not only disappear also the former uses file format (DOS) was set to Unix underhand . The result is that a lot of scripts did not work anymore because they produce a bunch of lines " bash: $'\r': command not found" instead of the expected output. I'm not able to filter all the scripts and files to remove the DOS line separator so I have to set the file format correctly. > > As far I can see there is no topic in the user manual which covers this issue also nothing in the FAQ. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Among other things that section discusses the /etc/fstab file and the mount options available, two of which are "binary" and "text". You need to add entries to your /etc/fstab file for at least the paths which contain your files, likely /cygdrive/c or something similar, which set the "text" mount option. Using your cygdrive as an example: none /cygdrive cygdrive text,posix=0,user 0 0 -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple