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From: Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 02:30:32 +0300
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Subject: Re: unset TMP Variable issue
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Problem was windows line breaks:(

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:34 PM Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> According to cygwin setup instructions we have to unset certain
> windows environment variables to prevent unpredictable windows
> behavior.
> When I try that in my ~/.bashrc
> [...]
> unset TMPDIR
> unset TMP
> unset TEMP
> [...]
>
> I get:
> ': not a valid identifier
> ': not a valid identifier
> ': not a valid identifier
>
> With the following input:
> cygwin-> echo $TMP
> /cygdrive/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Temp
> cygwin-> echo $TEMP
> /cygdrive/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Temp
> cygwin-> echo $TMPDIR
>
> cygwin->
>
> What does the error "': not a valid identifier" mean and how can I fix it?
>
> TIA
> Nikos
>
> Attached is the zipped cygcheck output with user names crossed out

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