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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:26:51 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: An AWK-ward problem...
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 03:21:36PM -0500, Flint, Paul wrote:
>Greetings List lurkers,
>
>I have been troubleshooting some new bash script that I wrote and wanted (for some reason :^) to run on an NT box.
>
>So the struggle began...
>
>Anyway I get the oddest error:
>
><snip>
>/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
>/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk: line 7: $'\r': command not found
>warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in sendjcl.log.
><snap>
>
>So... I check my code and check my code... soon the problem begins to drive me mad...
>
>Then!
>
>I do this from a cygwin ver 2.761 terminal...
>
>$cd /c/cygwin/bin
>$dos2unix awk
>
>Now awk works!

Right.  awk doesn't want CRLF line endings.  Remember that Cygwin is a
linux-like environment.  Linux doesn't always deal well with Windows
line endings either.

cgf

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