On Nov 23 15:21, 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!
I don't believe in this solution: - The above error messages are not Cygwin gawk error messages. They look like bash error messages. Bash doesn't understand CRLF line endings in scripts unless you explicitly allow that. - /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is apparently the name of a shell script. /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Git/bin/awk is certainly not /bin/awk. - /bin/awk is a symlink to /bin/gawk.exe, an executable. If you call dos2unix on an executable, the executable will be either unchanged, or broken with a high probability. - Even if it doesn't matter in this scenario, Cygwin's gawk understands CRLF line endings in awk scripts. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
